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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ACR, familiar allies unite anew to ‘stop insurer profit grab at patient and provider expense’

The American College of Radiology is again linking arms with the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) in a lawyer-guided effort to iron out an abrading wrinkle in the No Surprises Act.

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Researchers receive $3.7M to attempt robotic heart surgery inside MRI scanner

The group—which includes engineers, cardiologist, radiologists and other specialists—will attempt to perform a robotic-controlled left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO) on a patient inside an MRI scanner.

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Contrast-enhanced mammography to get rigorous tryout under ACR’s oversight

Might mammography enhanced by contrast media prove a surer, faster way than other modalities—including digital breast tomosynthesis—to get to a definitive diagnosis for women with dense breast tissue? The American College of Radiology wants to know.

Medical center cleared in lawsuit over injurious MRI scan

A California hospital is not liable for negligence or elder abuse, both of which were civilly charged by a man who sustained second-degree burns while undergoing an MRI scan.

Private practice IRs out-earn academic peers, but fuller comparison suggests a wash on quantifiable pros and cons

The academics turn the tables in median starting salaries, edging out private-practice interventional radiologists $380,000 to $374,000 while also working fewer weekly call days.

Carestream, Philips, Sectra and 5 more industry names in the news of late

Oct. 11: Aftermarket parts and service supplier DirectMed in San Diego acquires MRI coil vendor ScanMed of Omaha, Neb.

Survey spurred by ‘general need for more public transparency’ sheds light on editorial leadership at imaging journals

At scientific journals focused on medical imaging, 82% of editors-in-chief and 30% of editorial board members receive financial compensation for these side jobs.

2 imaging technologies cleared for respective markets

The FDA has approved a CT guidance system for interventional radiologists performing percutaneous procedures with robotics. And the European Union has greenlit a family of mobile CT scanners.

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The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

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.

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.