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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Those Pesky Patients

To the Standard & Poor’s downgrade of US sovereign debt, the CMS proposal to slash the radiology professional component, and the stalemate in Washington, add yet another threat to solvency that has slipped nearly undetected onto the horizon—your patients.

CMS Says Some Physicians Must Revalidate Medicare Enrollment

A comprehensive anti-fraud initiative undertaken by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) under health reform law will soon force some physicians in the Medicare program to revalidate their individual enrollment records, the agency has announced.

ACR Taps Six Leaders For RLI Board

The American College of Radiology (ACR) has appointed six eminent leaders from academic and private practice radiology to serve on the board of directors of its Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI), radiology’s first professional development and leadership academy.

Royal Philips Completes Sectra Mammography Acquisition

In a transaction worth 57.5 million Euros, Royal Philips Electronics, parent company of Philips Healthcare, has completed its acquisition of the mammography business of Linkoping, Sweden-based Sectra, a PACS and digital mammography developer.

Association Voices Objections to Patient-Level Data Reporting Rules

The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association is asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to reconsider a proposal to require the submission of patient-level data as it pilots electronic submissions of clinical quality measures.

Humana to Acquire Arcadian Management Services

Health insurer Humana Inc. of Louisville, Kentucky announced Thursday that it has signed an agreement to acquire Arcadian Management Services, a Medicare Advantage HMO with approximately 64,000 members in 15 states. Terms of the agreement were not disclosed.

MMP Moves Ahead of ICD-10 Curve

Taking a proactive approach to ICD-10, Medical Management Professionals, Inc. (MMP), an Atlanta-based provider of billing and practice management services to hospital-based physicians, has made requisite software adjustments to comply with the transition to HIPAA ANSI ASC X12 Version 5010. Health care providers must begin using the ANSI ASC X12

Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic to Form New Physician Relationships

In moves to grapple with decreasing hospitalization rates and sluggish or declining inpatient revenues, The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and the Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, reveal in a recent American Medical News article pending announcements of plans to establish relationships with physicians via subscription-based services. Both

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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.