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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Social media engagement, attendance drop when radiology conferences go virtual

After moving online, RSNA20 saw a 43% decrease in attendees and a corresponding 46% dip in tweets about the show compared to the previous year.

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Department of Justice fires back over Texas physicians’ surprise billing lawsuit

The DOJ believes providers have no standing in the closely watched case, as they have not demonstrated the law will negatively impact the profession.

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American College of Radiology strongly opposes state’s plan to relax doc supervision requirements

Removing this longstanding safety standard would degrade care quality without increasing patient access, ACR CEO William Thorwarth Jr. wrote recently.  

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COVID-19 claims another in-person medical imaging conference

The Association for Medical Imaging Management is shelving its February show in Savannah, Georgia, citing ongoing challenges stemming from the latest variant.

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82% of radiologists surveyed say they’re in a happy marriage

The finding, placing the specialty in the middle of the pack, is part of Medscape’s 2022 Physician Lifestyle & Happiness Report, released Jan. 14. 

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Use of ‘financial coping strategies’ common among patients unable to shoulder high imaging costs

Responses to hefty out-of-pocket costs include decreasing household spending, dipping into savings, or taking on debt, experts detailed in JACR. 

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Private equity-backed Rayus Radiology reveals additional expansion plans

The growing imaging group is launching two new outpatient centers, ballooning its national total to 152 and counting. 

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Yale seeks help developing measures to address equity in incidental lung nodule follow-up

The Ivy League institution recently notched a nearly $500,000 grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the work. 

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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.