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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Independent practice coalition Strategic Radiology adds 80-physician group, deepening presence in 1 state

Summit Radiology is the product of two organizations—Allen County Radiology Associates and CFB Radiology, with roots dating to the 1960s—merging in 1995. 
 

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Study unearths high rates of incidental findings on pediatric CT scans for trauma

About 10% of these cases required immediate or urgent action, researchers detailed in Clinical Imaging. 

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Forcing patients to ‘opt out’ of screening mammography does not appear to impact adherence

Automatically scheduling patients for breast imaging also created a heavier administrative burden, researchers detailed Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

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Startup radiopharmaceutical developer Mariana Oncology raises $175M in series B financing

The company has developed a portfolio of nuclear medicine solutions including "lead candidate" MC-339, used for treating small cell lung cancer.

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FDA aiming to modernize 510(k) process that many radiology devices must go through

The administration also is accepting comments on the draft guidelines and plans to host a webinar on Oct. 26. 

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Akumin’s creditors reportedly lawyer up; radiology provider may face delisting from Nasdaq

Some noteholders to Akumin have organized with debt restructuring law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, Bloomberg Law reported Sept. 7

Imaging advocacy group hopes to counteract ‘dangerous care delays and denials’ in PET payment

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology is pushing payers to more consistently and correctly cover medically necessary scans without prior authorization. 

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CMS kick-starts key piece of IDR process under surprise billing law

The federal agency first announced the move Tuesday, noting that it pertains to single and bundled payment disputes submitted on or before Aug. 3. 

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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.