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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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Training program bolsters radiology residents’ skills at gaining informed consent, disclosing complications

Physicians are often tasked with this important duty, but many lack familiarity with the process due to minimal training, experts wrote recently. 

Radiology experiments with virtual visiting professorships amid pandemic

The idea is showing promising early returns, based on survey data, and may warrant further exploration, experts wrote in JACR. 

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Physicians exploring options to speed up legal timetable in surprise-billing suit against feds

The government has until early March to respond, but 3 professional organizations including the ACR want a faster resolution since the No Surprises Act took effect Jan. 1. 

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American College of Radiology says recent advocacy efforts will save physicians more than $1B

Avoiding such Medicare reductions, despite a "bitterly partisan Congress" and ongoing pandemic, is "simply remarkable," one ACR leader said Thursday. 

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One of nation’s largest hospitals acquires 30-year-old radiology practice and its 21 locations

Tampa General Hospital is assuming full ownership of Tower Radiology, ballooning its statewide roster of outpatient imaging centers to 83. 

Radiology experts expect virtual residency interviews to persist beyond the pandemic

Researchers recently distributed a survey to nearly 200 program directors across the U.S., hoping to gather their thoughts on remote interviewing amid the COVID crisis. 

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5 factors contributing to the gender pay gap in radiology and how to address them

Solving this long-lingering crisis could improve patient care and organizational success, experts wrote in Clinical Imaging. 

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Checklist training boosts radiology resident competency in obtaining informed patient consent

Of the residents who participated, 95% felt the education was beneficial and recommended it for future trainees.

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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.

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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.