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.

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SIR Presenters Tout New Directions for Interventional Radiology

Underscoring a press statement from SIR President-elect Marshall Hicks that interventional radiology is “the future of health care,” researchers at SIR 2012 debuted findings from a handful of studies spanning new IR treatment options in multiple sclerosis (MS), chronic obesity, and CT-guided lung biopsy, among others.

Hospital Integration Drives Insurer, Hospital Group to the Brink in PA

Even as the Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act this week, the potentially ugly side of healthcare integration is snarling in Pittsburgh, PA, the Wall Street Journal reports.

MMP Exec Randal Roat Named Strategic Radiology COO

Strategic Radiology (SR) of Minneapolis, MN will have a new COO this April.

BCBS Tries to Drive Down Costs with Cash Incentives

Insurers have tried every kind of incentive under the sun to drive consumer adoption of lower-cost healthcare. Now they might be skipping the pretense and going straight to cash rebates.

Texas Radiology Associates Lands Exclusive Contract with Baylor McKinney

Texas Radiology Associates (TRA) inked a deal with the Baylor Health Care System to be the sole provider of imaging services at its McKinney, TX facility when the center opens in July 2012.

vRad Begins New CEO Search

vRad CEO Rob Kill will be out by the end of the month and the search for his replacement has begun in earnest, confirms Sandy Schmitt, senior vice-president of strategy and development at the company.

CCTA Can Lower Costs, Save Lives, Says ACRIN Committee Chair

In what the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) is calling a landmark study that will save lives, time, and money, coronary CT angiography (CCTA) was found to be more effective in treating ER patients with chest pain than traditional methods.

SC Rad Bookkeeper Cops to $672K in Credit Fraud

A bookkeeper at a Columbus, SC radiology practice pled guilty last week to racking up $672,433 in unauthorized charges on the credit cards of her employers.

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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.