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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Radiology business advocates implore Congress to remedy worsening physician shortages

ACR and RBMA want lawmakers to reintroduce the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act to begin addressing a growing deficit of docs.

Radiology rises into 10 highest paid specialties with average compensation of $503,564

The number represents a roughly 1.6% uptick from the radiologist salary figure recorded in the previous Doximity survey. 

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Study supports feasibility of full-time AI-based workflow in the ED

When used to flag anomalies in combined chest and musculoskeletal X-rays, imaging AI can relieve overstretched emergency radiology teams.

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How one radiology department increased use of its alert system for critical imaging findings

Almost 10% of radiology reports contain such an alert and communication of them is crucial to keeping patients safe and avoiding malpractice lawsuits. 

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Cindy Crawford-backed, whole-body MRI startup continues expansion, despite radiologist concern

California-based Prenuvo recently raised $70 million and is opening several locations across the U.S. this year and next. 

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IR proves strong on practicality, profitability—but some cost-inclusive metrics remain to be shown

Recent evidence confirms that interventional radiology produces solid clinical outcomes while beating surgery on the cost-effectiveness of numerous procedures.

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Practice leaders must take ‘urgent action’ to address moral distress in radiology

This dilemma occurs when providers knows the right thing to do for a patient, but institutional constraints prevent them.

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Hospital to pay False Claims Act penalty for allegedly letting unsupervised residents interpret X-rays

University of Iowa Health Care also has agreed to mandate that physicians receive training on Medicare's requirements for reimbursement in a teaching setting. 

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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.