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.

Video interview with Elizabeth Ann Ignacio, MD, FSIR, FACR., chair of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Small and Rural Practices Committee and president of the Hawaii Medical Association, who explains the challenges facing rural healthcare providers and the key reasons for burnout.

Interventional radiologist burnout and retention in rural areas largely related to administrative burdens

"A significant part of burnout stems from the overwhelming administrative burden," explains Elizabeth Ann Ignacio, MD, FSIR, FACR, chair of the SIR Small and Rural Practices Committee.

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Lawyer: Immigration policy reforms would address healthcare staffing shortages

Kathleen Campbell Walker, JD, immigration practice group chair at the law firm Dickinson Wright, explains how outdated immigration policy is exacerbating the healthcare staffing shortage.
 

Time running out to comment on higher cardiac CT payments

Imaging experts have said the move could reshape the financial landscape for hospitals offering Cardiac CT services.

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Arbitrators settle Radiology Partners-UnitedHealthcare dispute, vacating $134M award to RP

“While the result was surprising and unsatisfying, we are nevertheless pleased that the panel rejected any recovery to UHC," the California-based practice said on Thursday. 

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State passes law granting attorney general more authority to review private equity healthcare deals

Annual private equity investment in healthcare reached $83B billion three years ago, but these transactions have faced little scrutiny to ensure they are in the public’s best interest, sponsors note. 

Allegheny Health Network

Hospital completes $12M expansion of its radiology department

Allegheny Valley Hospital is offering a new mobile MRI truck, among other upgrades, which will add 40 new appointment slots per week. 

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Pennsylvania radiologist charged for possessing child pornography

The U.S. Attorney's Office announced the two-count indictment on Sept. 4, with 53-year-old Ashok Panigraphy, MD, the sole defendant. 

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AI triage system fails to improve radiologist performance or turnaround times

Commercially available software for intracranial hemorrhage detection did not appear to hold up in a prospective, single-center study, experts write in the American Journal of Roentgenology

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The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

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.

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.