Practice Management

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

Iodine contrast being loaded into a contrast injector in preparation for a cardiac CT scan at Duly Health and Care in Lisle, Illinois. The contrast shortage is causing some healthcare organizations to postpone exams and procedures and ration contrast supplies. Photo by Dave Fornell

‘Relatively new’ contrast vendor releases second generic agent

A global tech and pharma supplier that introduced a generic equivalent to GE Healthcare’s Visipaque during the height of the 2022 contrast shortage has begun offering a substitute for Guerbet’s Dotarem.

Patient access to radiology reports: 2 angles

Should patients read their radiology reports ahead of the doctor who ordered the exam? That’s not a new question. It was supposed to have been settled in the affirmative by the 21st Century Cures Act.

Tough sledding for patients using hospital ‘transparency’ tools to obtain imaging price estimates

Notwithstanding CMS’ most-shoppable-services rule, radiology researchers find much work lies ahead “if the goal of online price estimators is for patients to use them.”

Imaging fraud lands surgeon in jail

An orthopedic surgeon in California will spend seven years in prison for needlessly X-raying 10 patients hundreds of times over a four-year stretch.

RBMA presses CMS to amend 2023 physician fee schedule

Warning that proposed new cuts in Medicare reimbursement could afflict U.S. healthcare with “severe and permanent damage,” the Radiology Business Management Association has presented CMS with detailed recommendations for stopping such a dire scenario from arising.

2 data breaches—geographically distant yet chronologically close—reported in radiology

Radiology practices in Arizona and Texas have been hit by hackers.

Down Under, imaging referrers respond to government-issued overutilization notices

Upon receiving a just-the-facts letter from a federal health official, Australia’s most frequent referrers for musculoskeletal imaging significantly curbed their inclination to place these orders over the next 12 months.

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New Orleans looks to Cleveland for pediatric coverage

Children’s Hospital New Orleans is tapping Cleveland Clinic as a way to make sure Pelican State families have ready access to board-certified pediatric radiologists.

Around the web

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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