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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 groups slam MAC’s local coverage determination, claiming its irrational, lacks evidence

The change would require providers to obtain a psychological assessment before performing an interventional procedure used to treat chronic lower back pain.

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123 organizations come out in support of FIND Act aimed at strengthening diagnostic imaging pay

Backers include societies representing radiologists and nuclear medicine professionals, device manufacturers, patient advocacy groups, and pharmaceutical companies. 

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‘Secret shopper’ study co-authored by Mark Cuban finds hospitals failing at imaging price transparency

“These results suggest that hospitals need to substantially improve the integration of their online pricing data with frontline staff who interact with patients," investigators wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine. 

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Radiology, emergency medicine and anesthesiology societies urge appeals court not to undo surprise-billing win

"Under-compensation of out-of-network care will threaten the viability of smaller and independent physician practices," ACR and others charged. 

The most common reasons for imaging contrast agent-related malpractice lawsuits

Experts offered three takeaways from their query of legal claims databases, sharing their findings in Radiology. 

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Running a CT scanner at Munich’s Oktoberfest: What providers learned

Imaging experts deployed the machine at the world’s largest annual fair in 2022, recently sharing their findings in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

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GE HealthCare secures $44M from Gates Foundation to develop AI-powered ultrasound technology

The Chicago-based industry giant’s goal is to aid healthcare professionals, including those without specialized training, in producing high-quality imaging exams. 

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82% of CTA head and neck scans in 1 emergency department had no actionable findings

Nonphysician practitioners and ED residents also ordered a significantly greater proportion of such exams, experts detailed in JACR. 

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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.