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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Radiology Partners acquiring 3 new practices with $300M in additional debt

The El Segundo, California-based imaging giant is adding new groups in its home state, Alaska and Florida, Moody's revealed recently. 

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US Radiology Specialists-backed practice acquiring 30-year-old outpatient imaging facility

The growing Raleigh, North Carolina-based imaging group now spans across 160 centers in 14 states, reading 7M exams annually. 

Medical school prestige could gain ‘outsized influence’ on radiology resident selection after upcoming change

U.S. Medical Licensing Examination organizers are shifting to a pass-fail system for the Step 1 exam, and rads are concerned this will only create a new set of problems. 

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Senators introduce bipartisan bill bolstering Medicare patients’ access to diagnostic imaging agents

Representatives also introduced the Facilitating Innovation Nuclear Diagnostics Act of 2021 in the U.S. House in July. 

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CMS pulls about-face, revoking ‘unexpected’ new barriers to PET imaging payment

The Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging says the feds appear to have reconsidered a controversial recent decision. 

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DOJ considering lawsuit to block UnitedHealth’s $13B deal with Change Healthcare

Speculation that the Department of Justice could get involved first surfaced back in March. 

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RSNA’s imaging guidelines for COVID-19 demonstrate value, but highlight CT’s limitations

The consensus guidelines are associated with a high specificity, new research confirmed. 

Updated stroke protocol boosts patient outcomes

The shift was associated with improved door-to-puncture and door-to-reperfusion times.

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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.