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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CMS seeks feedback on issuing separate payment for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals

The agency issued its solicitation as part of the recently released 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule. 

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Vienna-based ultrasound startup eyes US expansion after closing $5.5M fundraising round

Piur Imaging claims that its “Infinity” offering is the only vendor-neutral, tomographic 3D ultrasound solution on the market. 

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Medicare fee schedule proposes pay cut for diagnostic and interventional radiology; ditching AUC program also on the table

Imaging advocates blasted the proposal shortly after its release, saying it's "unconscionable that radiology is again on the chopping block."   

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Number of radiologists in private practice falls below 50% for 1st time in a decade

Payment cuts in Medicare, rising costs and administrative burdens all are pushing providers to seek sales, the AMA said. 

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How private practice and academic interventional radiology groups are using APPs differently

Both are making ample use of advanced-practice providers to handle procedures and other billable work, with a few notable differences. 

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After raising $12M, startup launches new specialized MRI unit for infants

Eyas Medical Imaging announced the first installation of its “groundbreaking” Ascent system in the NICU at Cincinnati Children’s. 

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Physician assistants order imaging at rates higher than primary care doctors

Measures to optimize the value of radiology services will be necessary as the strained PCP workforce is increasingly augmented by other providers, experts wrote in JACR. 

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Radiology societies express ‘significant concern’ around proposed BlueCross BlueShield policy

BCBS last month suggested curtailing coverage for peripheral nerve stimulation devices, used to relieve pain, which drew ire from thousands of physicians. 

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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.