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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Montefiore

UnitedHealthcare, hospital system reach agreement after spat over imaging costs 2-3 times local average

UHC cut Montefiore out of network in January, calling it “New York City’s most expensive health system," but plans to restore access Dec. 1. 

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Pandemic provides priority-setting opportunity to scrutinize low-value imaging, experts say

After COVID-related disruptions let up last year, the use of certain exams did not return at the same rate as prior to 2020, according to new data.

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Senators introduce bipartisan legislation to bolster imaging use amid COVID-related slowdowns

The Preventive Care Awareness Act would launch a grant program, public health campaign and task force to encourage patients to undergo mammography and other screening services. 

The top 12 radiology schools in the world, according to US News and World Report

Harvard University took the top spot in the Best Universities for Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging category, with Stanford coming in second. 

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Strategic Radiology teams with lobbying firm to represent private practices’ interests on Capitol Hill

The partnership comes as the Biden administration works on several legislative issues that could have big implications in imaging. 

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‘Clinic that comes to you,’ offering free at-home imaging, expands into 3 new markets

Nice Healthcare targets small and medium sized businesses, bringing musculoskeletal and primary care services into the home using PAs and NPs. 

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Geographic information systems a useful tool for population health planning in radiology

Providers have previously deployed such analytics tools in public health programs, but their use has been scarce in imaging, Johns Hopkins experts wrote in JACR. 

Benefis Health System

Hospital system purchases local radiology practice

Great Falls, Montana-based Benefis Health System declined to disclose terms of the deal, which will add 2 imaging centers to its roster of facilities.

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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.