Capitol Radiology initiated a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on July 18, a U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Maryland record indicated.
The practice, doing business as Laurel Radiology Services and based in Prince George's County, MD, faced Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) sanctions from May 6, 2022, through May 6, 2024, after a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) facility inspection.
When a facility fails to meet MQSA standards, the FDA requires it to notify affected patients and their referring healthcare providers that their recent mammograms could have unreliable results. The FDA revoked the facility's MQSA certificate, prohibiting mammography services during the two-year period.
At the time, the FDA said its annual MQSA inspection revealed that the facility could not legally provide mammography services because it had not obtained accreditation of a full-field digital mammography unit from its accrediting body, the American College of Radiology (ACR), prior to using the unit to image patients. Capitol Radiology was unaccredited and uncertified to perform mammography, the FDA said.
"Additionally, the facility failed to perform the required weekly quality control tests of an imaging unit for at least twelve (12) consecutive weeks between June 16, 2020 and September 12, 2020," the FDA noted, identifying Larry McKenney and radiologist Doriann Thomas, MD, as owners or operators of the practice at the time of the violations.
More recently, Capitol Radiology sued the University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS), UM Capital Region Health, Advanced Radiology at Capital Region, and RadNet in 2024, alleging discrimination when it was denied the opportunity to bid on a contract for the provision of outpatient radiology services on UMMS's Laurel campus.
