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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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After months-long delay, imaging center operator Akumin reports Q2 earnings results

The publicly traded radiology firm logged 1.659M RVUs during the three months ending June 30, up 52% from last year.

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Hand trauma patients requiring radiology services face much higher odds of receiving surprise bill

Radiologists had the highest association among docs, presenting a 132% greater risk of an unanticipated IOU, experts wrote in the Journal of Hand Surgery. 

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CMS officially repeals Trump-era rule granting faster Medicare coverage for breakthrough devices

MCIT would have eliminated lag time between the FDA approving new technologies and the federal payment program covering them.

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States sue Biden administration over CMS healthcare worker COVID-19 vaccination mandate

Ten attorneys general recently took their beef to court, claiming the Jan. 4 deadline will only exacerbate deepening workforce shortages. 

Biden expected to choose cardiologist who served under Obama as next FDA commissioner

Robert Califf, MD, is a practicing cardiologist and professor of cardiology at the Duke University School of Medicine. 

Radiologists among hundreds of docs urging Facebook to disclose data on COVID vaccine disinformation

“This deception must end now. So many deaths could have been prevented," rads and other physicians recently wrote to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. 

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Imaging advocate applauds CMS’ decision to lift longstanding PET payment restriction

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is removing restrictions for using positron emission tomography scans outside of cancer care. 

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COVID-19’s impact on early career radiologists’ well-being underlines need for intervention

Rad residents have experienced financial and emotional hardships yet only about half have access to mental health services, according to new survey results.

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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.

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.