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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Mass General’s radiology expansion plans ‘threaten’ healthcare affordability, state watchdog warns

Nearly $1.9M in upgrades at the system's flagship hospital would pull $4M in CT and MR revenues away from other healthcare players, according to a new analysis.

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Transparency around potential conflicts of interest lacking among top medical imaging journals

About 41% of physician editorial board members from top radiology journals received payments from industry interests, ranging from $13 to $405K. 

Reading cases from home does not impact radiology residents’ productivity

Trainees, in fact, were able to read a much higher volume of CT and MRI exams remotely amid the pandemic, experts detailed in JACR.  

What radiology providers need to know about 2022 CPT coding updates

The American Medical Association has added nearly 250 new Current Procedural Terminology codes this year, but only a select few impact imaging.

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Change Healthcare may sell off assets to close UnitedHealth deal, plus more vendor news

Also, Agfa to raise prices for its radiology solutions, Philips sees comparable sales decline, and Qure.ai scores an FDA clearance.

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CT angiography produces surge of extra work for radiologists, underlining need for burnout vigilance

Creating a data-driven, analytical understanding of imaging volumes each shift can allow practices to increase staffing to help alleviate workload-related distress. 

Price shopping transparency

Wide variation in musculoskeletal imaging charges, including 74-fold difference for one CT exam

Stanford University experts analyzed price transparency data from 250 of the nation's top hospitals, sharing their work in AJR. 

ACR challenges lack of transparency in Medicare Administrative Contractor coverage determinations

The American College of Radiology has joined 17 other provider groups in urging CMS to address poor stakeholder engagement. 

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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.