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.

Declining Reimbursement, Other Trends Impacting Radiology Practice

Eight trends are negatively impacting the practice of radiology, and radiologists are responsible for several of them.

Devicor Completes Acquisition of Neoprobe Products and Related Assets

Devicor™ Medical Products, Inc., a portfolio company of Chicago, Illinois-based private equity firm GCTR, last week announced the execution of its previously revealed agreement to acquire the neoprobe® gamma detection system (GDS) products and related assets from Neoprobe Corporation.

Hospital Merger Runs Afoul of FTC

Forming an effective Accountable Care Organization (ACO) through a merger without running into trouble with the Federal Trade Commission's anti-trust rules may require walking a fine line and paying close attention to an evolving set of government rules and recommendations.

Loss Leader? Low-Cost CT for Smokers Gains Popularity

With new research showing that CT scans may help in the early detection of lung-cancer in current or former smokers, hospitals are increasingly offering steeply discounted CT scans to patients for cash, reports Kaiser Health News (KHN).

Radiology Field Donated $113,150 to Super Committee Members in 2010

With tremendous political power concentrated in the 12 members of the Congressional "super committee" tasked with cutting as much as $1.5 billion from the Federal budget, having an established political relationship with super committee members may be one of the few ways interest groups have to influence the outcome of the committee's budget cut

Orszag Praises Diagnostic Imaging Decision Support in Bloomberg Blog

To make a point about how health IT can curb runaway health care costs, Peter R. Orszag cited the experience of Partners HealthCare System Inc. in Boston.

ACR Enters Radiology Leadership Development

The American College of Radiology (ACR) plans to create its own professional development and leadership academy next year. The ACR's Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI) will be an innovative, multi-level, multi-year academy that will feature world-class instructors from renowned universities, the ACR press release promises.

AHRA and Toshiba Expand Patients First Program

For the fourth year of in a row, AHRA: The Association for Medical Imaging Management and Toshiba America Medical Systems, Inc., are offering grants to fund programs, training or seminars aimed at improving patient care and safety in CT, MR, Ultrasound, X-ray and Vascular imaging.

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

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.

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.