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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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More GE HealthCare details announced, including its potential launch date and first board of directors

GE HealthCare, the upcoming standalone healthcare business from GE, has announced its new board of directors and the target spinoff date.

‘I learned to say radiologist when I was no more than 5’

In a book written for popular audiences, a board-certified pediatrician and radiologist’s daughter describes her lifelong affinity for radiology as perhaps only she could.

Fraud, bias, iffy authorship ‘non-negligible practices’ in nuke med research

Nuclear radiologists are overall confident in the scientific soundness of studies published within their field. Those working in Asia are especially trusting. However ... 

Imaging fraud lands surgeon in jail

An orthopedic surgeon in California will spend seven years in prison for needlessly X-raying 10 patients hundreds of times over a four-year stretch.

The rise and fall of race-based radiation dosing: 4 lessons

Thanks to public outcry and legislative action in 1968, Black patients have not routinely received higher-dose X-rays than their fair-skinned peers for more than half a century.

RBMA presses CMS to amend 2023 physician fee schedule

Warning that proposed new cuts in Medicare reimbursement could afflict U.S. healthcare with “severe and permanent damage,” the Radiology Business Management Association has presented CMS with detailed recommendations for stopping such a dire scenario from arising.

2 data breaches—geographically distant yet chronologically close—reported in radiology

Radiology practices in Arizona and Texas have been hit by hackers.

Down Under, imaging referrers respond to government-issued overutilization notices

Upon receiving a just-the-facts letter from a federal health official, Australia’s most frequent referrers for musculoskeletal imaging significantly curbed their inclination to place these orders over the next 12 months.

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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.