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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.

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ASTRO Responds to Proposed Reimbursement Cuts

Officials at the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) hope a 16-page letter to CMS will help reverse a proposed 15% reduction in payment for radiation oncology services. CMS floated the decrease in late July as part of the 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS).

Representative Patrick Meehan Receives MITA’s 2012 “Access to Innovation” Award

Representative Patrick Meehan (R-Pa) received the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance’s (MITA) 2012 “Access to Innovation” Award for his efforts to "promote patient access to medical imaging, advancing innovation, and supporting jobs within the imaging industry." Siemens Healthcare presented Representative Meehan with the award at Siemens’

FDA Approves the ACR to Accredit Agfa Computed Radiography System

The FDA has approved the American College of Radiology (ACR) to accredit the Agfa full field digital mammography (FFDM) system beginning Sept. 14, 2012.

Breast Cancer Group Donates $50,000 to Colorado Imaging Center

The Vail Breast Cancer Awareness Group, based in Vail, Colo., has made a $50,000 donation to the Sonnenalp Breast Diagnostic Imaging Center at the Shaw Regional Cancer Center to help women who need but can't afford additional diagnostic imaging following a mammogram, reports local paper the Vail Daily.

ACR Issues Its Formal Response to the Proposed 2013 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

Reiterating its arguments from last year when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) first proposed a multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) on the professional component of imaging studies performed by physicians in the same group practice, the ACR pushed back hard against this idea in its formal written response to CMS this

Lawmakers May Weigh in on Meaningful Use, CQ Says

Congressional Quarterly reports that at least one House committee may schedule hearings on the latest Meaningful Use requirements for electronic health record incentive payments after lawmakers return from their August recess next week.

vRad Announces New Chief Financial Officer, John Way

Virtual Radiologic (vRad) named John Way as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Way will oversee all financial, treasury, accounting and planning/analysis functions at vRad. He previously served as CFO for three UnitedHealth Group businesses - Optum Collaborative Care, Secure-Horizons, and OptumHealth.

Siemens Multix Fusion Digital Radiography System Receives FDA Clearance

Siemens Healthcare has announced that the Multix Fusion digital radiography system has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA and is now available commercially in the United State.

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Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

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.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

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.