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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Radiology: Ancillary No More

Radiologists must counteract practice developments that can result in trivializing their specialty's contributions to medicine

Under the Influence of RBMs

It’s no secret that utilization control has emerged as the method of choice for private payors focused on reining in imaging costs. What is surprising is the speed with which radiology benefit management (RBM) companies have brought the commercial-payor market under the influence of precertification. At the end of 2005, RBMs covered approximately

Through Thick and Thin: The MGH Search for a 3D Solution

Imagine that you run a large city, and that up until now, the sole transportation available has been buses—but with the price of automobiles coming down, citizens suddenly want to drive cars.

Health Reform's Shortest Era

He came. He saw. He vanished. Just as we health care journalist types were lining up the margins and checking references on our various predictions of what Tom Daschle would bring to the health reform debate and process, he bequeathed his White House office to his deputy in waiting. Then, instead of conquering, he promptly left town—for good, it

ACR and RBMA Update on Congressional Activities and Medicare Payment Policies

On December 16, 2008, the RBMA hosted a Webinar to update members on ACR congressional activities and Medicare's payment policies for 2009.

The Sales-continuum Approach to Marketing ROI

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

In today’s challenging business environment, not many people would buy into the philosophy, in operating an imaging center, that if you build it, they will come. Most accept that marketing the center is required. Even so, the questions of exactly how to market the center and, equally important, how much to spend marketing the center remain

Maximizing RIS Potential

Sponsored by FUJIFILM Healthcare Americas

The IT needs of today’s radiology practices are ever evolving, and investing in the latest information solutions can be vital to the survival of a business in an increasingly cost-focused marketplace. For Raleigh Radiology Associates, a privately owned North Carolina practice offering a full range of imaging services across six locations throughout

The Purchasing Paradox

There is so much breadth and depth to today’s imaging marketplace that many radiology centers find themselves struggling to make sense of it all. As a result, growing numbers of organizations shopping for equipment end up with systems ill-suited to their needs and systems fated to fall short of meeting expectations and satisfying users, patients,

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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.