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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Radiologist highlights a potential hidden cause of physician burnout

UCLA's Dieter R. Enzmann, MD, detailed his thesis in a perspective piece published in Academic Radiology. 

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Independent practice coalition Strategic Radiology adds 1st member in Minnesota

Regional Diagnostic Radiology is based in the St. Cloud suburb of Sartell, employing more than 20 physicians.

Platform allowing patients to second-guess their radiologists’ findings expands to 12 states

MDView also has inked a new partnership with Modern Teleradiology to provide second opinion reports and video consultations to its users.

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Cardiologists lead push for Aetna to reconsider ‘restrictive,’ ‘inconsistent’ reimbursement proposals

The policies cover a wide range of interventional therapies, including Shockwave Medical's IVL technology and intravascular ultrasound. 

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Radiology groups express ‘profound objection’ to Cigna policy change

“It is our firm belief that such a classification does a disservice to patients," the American Society of Neuroradiology, Society for Interventional Radiology and others wrote recently. 

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Loss of autonomy a top concern among physicians working for private equity or other corporate owners

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.  

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UnitedHealthcare threatens to knock group of imaging centers out of its network

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.

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The impact of Medicare payment cuts on radiology and patient care access

RBMA President Kit Crancer said continued cuts will result in Medicare patients losing access to care when health systems and providers determine it is no longer economical.

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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.