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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Congress reaches bipartisan deal to blunt Medicare cuts, drawing praise from radiology advocates

“A pandemic is not the time to be cutting access to doctors for patients on Medicare,” said Rep. Kim Schrier, MD, D-Wash. 

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Noted radiologist urges specialty's return to days of communal eating during meal breaks

In medicine, the once-bustling break room has become a smaller, quieter, more sterile place, Richard Gunderman, MD, wrote recently. 

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Lawmakers pressure congressional leaders to fix clinical labor update set to stifle radiologist pay

Advocates have said these changes would necessitate “massive” pay reductions, with interventional radiologists and radiation oncologists bearing the brunt. 

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Radiology Partners constrained by ‘very high’ financial leverage, execution risk, Moody’s says

The investor service has issued two additional periodic reviews of industry players RadNet and U.S. Radiology Specialists. 

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Radiology advocates express dismay after stopgap spending bill fails to address specialty’s concerns

The measure to extend funding through Feb. 18 does not include any of the changes championed by physicians. 

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Lynda Carter, TV’s original Wonder Woman, offers lessons learned for the field of radiology

The specialty needs more female role models like the famed superhero, who became a feminist icon in the 1970s, Carter wrote in JACR. 

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Medicare spending on diagnostic radiology services fell $890M below expected levels in 2020

COVID-19 has taken a sizable bite out of physicians’ finances, and the AMA is now using such data to convince officials not to further reduce pay. 

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Hospital sees success deploying radiology trainees as at-home ‘teleresidents’

"Given concern over new variants, we believe that the home workstation program may continue to have a place in radiology training,” experts wrote.

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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.