Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.
ImageCare Radiology announced the decision Nov. 21, with the practice pulling out of Atlantic Health's Hackettstown and Newton Medical Centers effective the same day.
Another two-thirds of physicians reported having little or no involvement in practice management policies, according to a survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago.
The health insurer is in an ongoing contract dispute with Mary Washington Healthcare and six outpatient centers run in partnership with Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Analysts said the decision reflects increasing risk for RP, which faces forthcoming debt maturities and the chance it may need to execute a distressed exchange.
The rapidly growing shortage of radiologists and technologists was by far the biggest concern discussed across the Radiological Society of North America meeting.
The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.
CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.
