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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ACR launching new performance-improvement network with $3M Gordon & Betty Moore grant

The American College of Radiology Learning Network hopes to create performance metrics and strategies to improve patient outcomes across several sites. 

Feds to require COVID-19 vaccination at all healthcare facilities that accept Medicare and Medicaid

Physician groups such as the Society of Interventional Radiology and American Medical Association previously voiced support for such mandates. 

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Providers predict radiology practice closures if CMS fails to fix Medicare fee schedule

Payments for some office-based services are slated to fall 20%, potentially devastating private groups, experts said recently. 

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80-year-old practice joins Strategic Radiology’s growing coalition of independent providers

Radiology Associates is based in Corpus Christi, Texas, and employs 18 physicians working across 5 outpatient imaging centers. 

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Radiology business leaders want feds to postpone surprise-billing ban by 1 year, to 2023

The No Surprises Act is slated to take effect on Jan. 1, but imaging advocates believe providers and payers need another year to comply with the mandate. 

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Physician lawmakers take aim at Medicare pay cuts set to hit radiologists in near future

Failure to act could lead to further retirements, office closures or reduced staffing, MD Reps. Ami Bera and Larry Bucshon wrote to House leaders. 

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Radiology practices with 100 years of combined history merge in Northeast

Princeton Radiology and Medical Park Imaging will operate more than a dozen locations in New Jersey following their integration. 

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Radiology Partners’ employee relief fund raises nearly $2M, doling out $450K since last year

The El Segundo, California-based imaging giant first launched its RP One Fund to help partner practice employees hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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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.