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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Sarcoma-suspected incidental imaging findings often irrelevant while posing significant financial burden

“Because these incidentalomas can be considered clinically irrelevant, we believe that there is no benefit in detecting them," experts wrote in Clinical Imaging.

American College of Radiology joins other medical societies in speaking out over Ukraine crisis

“The ACR and its members stand ready to assist and support our radiologic colleagues and other medical providers in Ukraine," the group said March 4. 

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Radiology practices’ use of nurse practitioners, physician assistants has swelled in recent years

Imaging practices more likely to utilize NPPs are in urban areas, larger in size, and have a higher percentage of IR specialists, experts wrote in JACR

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ACR among dozens of doc groups urging feds to forgo looming Medicare cuts

Congress paused planned sequester cuts for the first three months of 2022, but they'll starting hitting docs on April 1, imaging advocates noted. 

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CMS reopens Merit-based Incentive Payment System application period following omicron surge

The American Medical Association praised the move, noting that physicians need flexibility given ongoing demands stemming from the pandemic. 

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Attending physicians’ reviews of radiology residents correlate with their ABR Core Exam score

Decreased evaluation scores during the first three years of residency align with whether individuals failed the test, experts wrote recently. 

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Study unearths low compliance and high outpatient imaging price variability at children’s hospitals

An MRI of the brain, for instance, could run for $1,693, a more than sevenfold difference from Medicare’s $230 rate.

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Regulators clear final hurdle in Microsoft’s $19.7B acquisition of Nuance Communications

Company officials said recently that they hope to close the mega merger deal by the end of March. 

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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.