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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vRad, Diagnostic Imaging Form Partnership

In another move to more firmly establish a foothold in the Northeast, Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Virtual Radiologic (vRad), the largest teleradiology group in the U.S., has forged a partnership with Diagnostic Imaging Inc., a private radiology practice headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

ACR, Other Organizations Protest Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and several other health care organizations are voicing increasingly strenuous objections to a multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in its 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Proposed Rule.

Outlook is Negative For Not-For-Profit Hospitals

The health care employment picture may be rosy compared to other sectors, but the outlook for U.S. not-for-profit hospitals is negative, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service.

Rural Health Networks to Receive Funding For HIT, EHR Implementations

Rural health networks nationwide will receive more than $11.9 million to support their adoption of health information technology (HIT) and certified electronic health records (EHR), the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) announced last Friday.The funding is also intended to assist participating eligible providers of these rural health

Next-generation Radiology Leadership

It is always encouraging to see the profession’s top-tier institutions embrace the notion of helping to develop tomorrow’s radiology leaders. It not only is the right thing to do for a profession in transition, but it validates and underscores what has become, for me, a vocational mandate. I have been dedicated to the idea of supporting imaging

Radiology-group Financial Performance

The Mystery of the Missing Collections

How well do you really know your payors? A recent analysis for one practice turned up some very interesting revelations with operational ramifications for the provider, but this was possible only because the provider had access to the entire fee schedule of the insurance company.

Preparing for ICD-10

October 1, 2013, ushers in a new era in coding. That is when health-care providers in all categories will be required to submit claims to CMS using the new ICD-10 codes. These codes must be used for all HIPAA transactions, including outpatient claims with dates of service—as well as on inpatient claims with dates of discharge—on and after October 1

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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.