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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Moody’s downgrades radiology provider Akumin’s outlook to ‘negative’ amid delay in furnishing financials

The publicly traded imaging center operator postponed its Q2 earnings call after missing a deadline, and the investor service said lengthier delays could lead to a default.

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Imaging advocates blast CMS repeal of rule granting faster Medicare coverage for breakthrough devices

Those in support of the MCIT proposal called the administration's decision a "major setback" in efforts to bring innovation to seniors sooner. 

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BMI a key clue to catching interval cancers between mammography screenings, large study finds

Density, a prior biopsy and family history were also associated with an increased risk of both early and advanced cancers after a negative mammogram. 

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Radiologists could cut surgery costs with imaging-first approach to common foot ailment

The specialty plays a crucial role in both diagnosing and treating Morton's neuroma, researchers detailed in the American Journal of Roentgenology. 

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Biden administration to repeal Trump-era rule granting faster Medicare breakthrough device coverage

CMS finalized the MCIT proposal in January ahead of the White House changeover and had planned to implement it in December. 

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RSNA exhibitor signups down 20%, but interest in Chicago return still ‘strong’

More than 500 companies have confirmed spots for this fall's scientific assembly, including 71 first-time participants, the Radiological Society of North America announced recently.

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FDA warns troubled imaging center following similar state alert alleging ‘serious risk to human health’

Hoffman Imaging & Medical Center reportedly let its mammography accreditation lapse in October 2019 but continued to deliver exams anyway, the FDA alleged. 

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50 lawmakers join ‘overwhelming’ opposition against wage update that will gash radiologist pay

A coalition of 16-plus medical groups, representing radiology and other specialities, has formed to oppose the clinical labor wage update. 

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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.