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.

Stronger Financial Statements Earn Better Financing Options

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Obtaining the most favorable financing depends on having the kinds of financial statements that lenders want to see. Before seeking funding for a de novo build, an upgrade to an existing imaging center, or new modality purchases, it is important to understand the commonly used types of financial statements, the kinds of financing typically

Taking Charge of FFDM Workflow

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Radiographic mammography can be difficult to interpret, and radiologists who read mammograms rely on prior studies to guide them. Many women wisely comply with the recommendation to have this lifesaving study annually, so radiologists are often doing a difficult job within a tight timeline because they must review many mammograms, including the

CHAMP, Sustainable Growth Rate Reform, and Other Potential Payment-reduction Vehicles

Today’s imaging market is substantially different from that of earlier years; payment is less secure, coverage for new technology is more difficult to obtain, and government and private oversight are increasing. After years of uninhibited growth and development, the imaging sector now faces unprecedented scrutiny that will probably change the way

Benchmarking the Cost of Processing Charges: Is Your Cost Too High?

Radiology practices create the largest number of new accounts per month of any specialty within a health care delivery system. On average, a practice reading 500,000 examinations per year would generate 35,000 new accounts per month. The billing issue that confronts every radiology practice is achieving a balance between processing costs and

The Third Rail: Measuring and Managing Physician Productivity

Richard Duszak, MD, bears the authority of experience when he cautions those who dare attempt to manage physician productivity: “If you don’t think there is a problem in your practice, you don’t want to go down this road and touch the third rail on the Metro—because you will get electrocuted, and you may die.”

Positioning the Practice's Feet on the Street

As the business of radiology assumes a greater role in the evolution of your outpatient imaging center (OIC), it is important to remember that, essentially, yours is a people business.

Radiology's Next Big Policy Fight

A Q & A with noted health care futurist Jeff Goldsmith, PhD, provides insight into the specialty’s looming challenges and vast opportunities.

Outpatient Imaging Forecast: More Volume, Slower Growth, Heightened Competition

With imaging representing the hospital’s greatest source of outpatient profits, hospitals must rewrite their playbooks to compete with more aggressive freestanding providers.

Around the web

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.