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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Radiologists call for action to address ‘growing suburban-urban gap’ in breast cancer detection

At Jefferson Health in Philadelphia, suburban screening sites have been quicker to recover than other outposts located in the city, experts write in Clinical Imaging

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Imaging lobbying group wants medical devices exempt from Trump tariffs

The White House announced the action Feb. 1, implementing a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% for products from China.

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Simple IT tweak fuels same-day radiologist reads and clinic visits

Radiologists have helped devise an approach that allows patients to receive imaging results during a same-day appointment. 

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Radiology department launches ‘financially viable’ 2nd-opinion service, ditches ‘curbside consults’

Texas Children’s Hospital experts detailed their efforts Jan. 30 in the journal Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. 

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Hospital giant Intermountain continues expanding homegrown outpatient imaging center chain

Tellica Imaging recently rolled out its 10th location, with the latest in Spanish Fork, Utah, its seventh outpost in Intermountain's home state.

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Lawmakers propose bipartisan bill to undo physician Medicare pay cut

Led by Greg Murphy, MD, House representatives are pushing the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act. 

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Judge grants class-action status in suit over controversial $164M radiology practice sale

The dispute dates to December 2017 when Colorado Springs-based Envision Radiology became 100% owned by its employees.  

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Corporations acquired 113 radiology practices, imaging centers over 11-year period

The South was the most active region with 50 deals, including 18 in Texas and 15 in Florida, experts write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

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The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.

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

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