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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Federal law change would require all insurers to cover any supplemental breast imaging

The Find it Early Act has support from both political parties, alongside the American College of Radiology and journalist/cancer survivor Katie Couric.

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Key factors associated with fraud in medical imaging research

The scientific community should reexamine its current academic award system, which may be incentivizing junior faculty to commit fraud, according to new research.

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Radiologist drove his family off a cliff on purpose, wife tells authorities

New details about jailed California physician Dharmesh Arvind Patel, MD, are coming to light after a judge recently unsealed court records ahead of a June 12 hearing.

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RadNet joins chorus urging USPSTF to go further with breast cancer screening updates

The company delivers 1.5M mammograms each year, and its data support the need for annual screening, leaders said, 

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Radiologists received $370M in gifts, speaker fees and other perks in 5 years, but most went to top 5%

More than 91% of the total pot of money (or $338 million) was paid to this smaller group of radiologists, experts detailed Thursday in Academic Radiology. 

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Envision Healthcare’s operating performance will continue to deteriorate, Moody’s predicts

The multispecialty group recorded $6.9B in revenues over a one-year period, but it's grappling with negative free cash flow and "very weak" liquidity, experts noted.

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States introduce nearly 90 bills to address ‘time-wasting’ prior authorization policies

More than a dozen proposals are being considered this legislative session, as the AMA lobbies alongside radiology groups to address this issue. 

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For-profit hospital giant HCA Healthcare touts joint venture with Envision Radiology

Clear Connect Medical Imaging will offer state-of-the-art technology, private dressing rooms and other modern amenities

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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.