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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Radiologist among the 6 highest-paying jobs in America

The specialty’s $329,080 average salary placed it behind four other medical specialties, along with “athletes and sports competitors," according to the Department of Labor.

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Radiological AI may never dream of interpreting images—but don’t underestimate its virtual cognitive capacity

In the same year three humans first orbited the moon, 1968, the sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick published Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The novel imagined a dark, futuristic society in which real people couldn’t be readily distinguished from lifelike androids.

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American College of Radiology issues heads-up on possible payment denials at certain facility types

ACR is urging providers who encounter such denials to contact their local Medicare Administrative Contractor and consults related CMS documents. 

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Cindy Crawford-backed startup offering whole-body MRIs for $2,499 marks ‘significant milestone’

Prenuvo just opened its first imaging center in New York City and is aiming to double its number of locations by the end of 2023.

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‘The physician workforce is vanishing’: State goes to desperate measures to recruit radiologists

The Physician Workforce Act aims to bolster recruitment of out-of-state physicians and accelerate licensure for international medical grads. 

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Radiology societies ‘alarmed’ by administrative burden, costs posed by new Cigna policy

Starting in May, the health insurer will require the submission of medical office notes when docs seek payment in certain scenarios. 

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‘Healthcare administration, leadership and management’ to be recognized as new subspecialty in radiology

The designation will cover clinical medicine alongside different principles in health system science, the American Board of Medical Specialties announced. 

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Radiology Business Management Association names annual award winners

Linda A. Wilgus took home RBMA's Calhoun Award, given each year since 1999 to recognize an individual’s “outstanding” contributions to the specialty.

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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.