Management

This page includes content on healthcare management, including health system, hospital, department and clinic business management and administration. Areas of focus are on cardiology and radiology department business administration. Subcategories covered in this section include healthcare economics, reimbursement, leadership, mergers and acquisitions, policy and regulations, practice management, quality, staffing, and supply chain.

Senators release new details on how Congress could reform radiologist Medicare payment system
Reforms could include creating more sustainable payment updates to ensure radiologists can continue owning and operating practices and rethinking how Medicare measures quality.
Radiologist urges peers to perform ultrasounds, build better bonds with patients
Pranjal Rai, MBBS, made his case in a new opinion piece published in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Amid ‘ever-escalating’ costs in cancer care, experts say its ‘imperative’ radiology screens for financial toxicity
Despite this dire need, there is wide variability in such processes, including the timing, setting, tools utilized and interpretation of the results, according to new research.
Private equity dealmaking in healthcare stalls amid persistent bid-ask gap, negative regulatory environment
PE sponsors announced or closed about 158 transactions in the first quarter (including five in imaging), a “downward trend even from 2023’s sluggish pace,” Pitchbook reports.
Prior authorization a ‘major contributor’ to radiologists’ mounting administrative burdens, ACR tells Congress
Amid specialist shortages and imaging backlogs, members of the U.S. Senate are seeking ways to ease the stress endured by physicians.

Siemens Healthineers investing $314M to build new MRI manufacturing facility

This is the first major production site for the company's DryCool technology, which drastically reduces the amount of helium required for magnetic resonance imaging.

May 13, 2024

RadNet acquires 9 imaging centers through 2 tuck-in transactions totaling $14M

The deals were with Antelope Valley Imaging and Grossman Imaging Centers, both located near RadNet's home base in California.

May 13, 2024

A book titled "Health Care Law" next to a gavel and a stethoscope

Radiologists should oppose the FTC’s noncompete ban, healthcare legal expert contends

Attorney Tom Greeson criticized the American College of Emergency Physicians for supporting the ban, believing it “weakens their membership,” and urged ACR and the RBMA to do the opposite.

May 10, 2024

Same-day discharge after interventional radiology procedure saves money without impacting outcomes

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, with bed space at a premium, UAB Medicine started sending patients home after percutaneous cryoablation of renal tumors.

May 10, 2024

White House highlights actions taken by RadNet, Siemens Healthineers as signs of Biden Cancer Moonshot progress

“These accomplishments deliver significant progress toward addressing President Biden’s goal to end cancer as we know it."

May 10, 2024

Collaborative bolsters prostate MRI quality, with 1 site realizing $559,000 in reimbursement gains

Some of the most commonly deployed interventions included protocol adjustments, standardized patient prep instructions and personnel training.

May 10, 2024

Lawmakers introduce bipartisan bill granting due process rights to contracted radiologists

UPDATED: Currently, such rights—to a fair process before termination, restriction or reduction of professional activities—are not offered to all physicians.

May 10, 2024

The long legal saga of Richard Paulus, a Kentucky cardiologist accused of performing unnecessary cardiac procedures, appears to still be going strong in 2022 and might be reviewed by the Supreme Court. The New York state radiologist is facing 36 misdemeanor counts for secret sexual recording without consent, according to a story in the Boston Herald.

Radiologist who botched multiple cosmetic procedures calls license revocation 'unfair' in appeals case

The physician's attorneys say that he is being "over punished" for his actions.

May 9, 2024

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Cardiovascular Business

Medicare drops AUC requirement for advanced imaging, ASNC celebrates

"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.

Cardiovascular Business

Cardiology, radiology groups urge insurance provider to rethink imaging policy

SCAI and four other major healthcare organizations signed a joint letter in support of intravascular ultrasound.

Cardiovascular Business

Radiology AI company gains FDA clearance for new CT offerings focused on PE, stroke

The newly approved AI models are designed to improve the detection of pulmonary embolisms and strokes in patients who undergo CT scans.

Management

Senators release new details on how Congress could reform radiologist Medicare payment system

Radiologist urges peers to perform ultrasounds, build better bonds with patients

Amid ‘ever-escalating’ costs in cancer care, experts say its ‘imperative’ radiology screens for financial toxicity

Private equity dealmaking in healthcare stalls amid persistent bid-ask gap, negative regulatory environment

Prior authorization a ‘major contributor’ to radiologists’ mounting administrative burdens, ACR tells Congress

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