Practice Management

Practice management involves overseeing all business aspects of a medical practice including financials, human resources, information technology, compliance, marketing and operations.

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Controversial reporting requirement—opposed by Rad Partners, Rayus, ACR and RBMA—set to take effect

“These requirements add a significant amount of additional time, resource, and administrative costs," the 4 groups said. 

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Large study finds widespread variability in timeliness of follow-up services after an abnormal screening mammogram

The findings, derived from ACR's National Mammography Database, offer important clues as leaders seek to improve biopsy rates after screenings. 

The most common reasons for imaging contrast agent-related malpractice lawsuits

Experts offered three takeaways from their query of legal claims databases, sharing their findings in Radiology

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Running a CT scanner at Munich’s Oktoberfest: What providers learned

Imaging experts deployed the machine at the world’s largest annual fair in 2022, recently sharing their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

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82% of CTA head and neck scans in 1 emergency department had no actionable findings

Nonphysician practitioners and ED residents also ordered a significantly greater proportion of such exams, experts detailed in JACR

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Should radiology groups share individual physicians’ productivity metrics?

Two members of the specialty attempted to answer this query, sharing dueling opinion pieces in the American Journal of Roentgenology.

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Community hospital scores $4M award to beef up interventional radiology services

NYC Health + Hospitals said the money will allow it to provide patients with access to a “state of the art” suite for IR procedures. 

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This year’s radiology match was the most competitive since 2001

More than 1 in 6 graduating U.S. MD students applying for a radiology position did not find such a match in 2023, experts detailed. 

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The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

After reviewing years of data from its clinic, one institution discovered that issues with implant data integrity frequently put patients at risk. 

Prior to the final proposal’s release, the American College of Radiology reached out to CMS to offer its recommendations on payment rates for five out of the six the new codes.

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