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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Working in radiology associated with higher levels of burnout amid pandemic, large survey finds

COVID has also disproportionately impacted women, younger providers and those whose caregiving duties have spilled into their work lives. 

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Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth honor DOJ info request, amend timing of merger

Under the Department of Justice pact, the two data giants agreed not to consummate the merger before Feb. 22, 2022. 

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Journal of the American College of Radiology easing author name-change policy impacting trans scholars

Transgender authors may be forced to abandon their previously published work due to numerous barriers in the process. 

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Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule offers positives, but still ‘disappointing’ cuts to radiologist pay

CMS is advancing a controversial clinical labor wage update but phasing it in over 4 years to minimize impact. 

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CMS raising rate for outpatient lung cancer screening by more than 37% in final rule

The update is part of a slew of changes in the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule. 

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Mammography screening rates low among transgender and nonbinary patients. 2 possible fixes

Gendering of anatomy is one screening barrier, with terms such as "breasts" often discomforting for certain patients, experts wrote recently. 

American Board of Radiology says pandemic may be dragging down some exam scores

Candidates just completed the second round of remote interventional and diagnostic radiology oral examinations, with ABR recently revealing the results. 

Texas Medical Association files suit to stop surprise-billing provision opposed by radiologists

Lone Star State docs believe the feds failed to follow congressional intent in a recently released interim final rule. 

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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.