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.

Newly proposed cybersecurity rule could cripple private radiology practices, RBMA says
This marks the first major update to the HIPAA Security Rule in over a decade, with HHS seeking to require multifactor authentication and written documentation of all policies.
Thousands of radiologists now work for private equity, up sharply from a decade ago
About 282 (or 1%) of radiologists worked for PE entities in 2013, a number that has increased over 1,300% in the 11 years since, according to new research.
Aclarion, a company using remote MRIs to assess back pain, expands in partnership with RadNet
The publicly traded Broomfield, Colorado, firm plans to bolster access to its Nociscan product across key markets in New York and New Jersey.
Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice
CCTA continues to grow more and more important in the day-to-day treatment of heart patients. Hospitals and health systems that fail to embrace the modality risk falling behind.
Radiology pushes for doc fix as government funding deadline looms
Momentum is building for the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act, the AMA notes, with 99 bipartisan co-sponsors in the House.

If One is Good, Two is Better

The number of multi-facility diagnostic imaging center chains in America continued its precipitous rise in 2005, according to the latest Diagnostic Imaging Center Market Report from Verispan. The research company identified 687 diagnostic imaging center chains that owned, managed, or leased a total 3,818 imaging centers as of August 2005. The

At Cross Purposes

As health care costs rise and imaging leads the way, payors clearly have targeted radiology as an opportunity to slow growth. Beset by reimbursement cuts, other specialties see imaging as a way to add ancillary income and the Stark in-office imaging carve-out as the door to that opportunity. Organized radiology is lobbying Washington to emphasize

The New Deal

Beginning January 1, 2006, imaging centers and in-office providers of imaging will collect 25% less on the technical component for most MR/MRA, CT/CTA, and ultrasound studies conducted on contiguous body parts. Transvaginal and ultrasound of the breast were spared the contiguous-body-part discount, as were hospital-based imaging centers paid under

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Health Imaging

AI reduces CT lung cancer screening workload by nearly 80%

And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

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.

Management

Newly proposed cybersecurity rule could cripple private radiology practices, RBMA says

Thousands of radiologists now work for private equity, up sharply from a decade ago

Aclarion, a company using remote MRIs to assess back pain, expands in partnership with RadNet

Building a successful CCTA program: Physicians and healthcare executives to share advice

Radiology pushes for doc fix as government funding deadline looms

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