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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American College of Radiology leads push to extend Medicare pay protections through 2023

A temporary 3.75% pay increase, enacted to soften the blow of budget neutrality requirements, is set to expire on Jan. 1. 

Radiologists among millions of healthcare professionals urging for COVID-19 vaccination mandates

The Society of Interventional Radiology is among nearly 60 medical societies signing a statement supporting mandates among hospitals and other healthcare workplaces.

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American Board of Radiology reveals full exam schedule for 2022

Its testing slate will kick off with the diagnostic and interventional radiology subspecialty exams in nuclear imaging on Jan. 10. 

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Moody’s upgrades Radiology Partners’ outlook but still sees ‘significant’ risk in Mednax integration

The investors service changed its position on RP from stable to positive, noting a marked recovery in patient volumes after steep COVID-related declines in Q2 of 2020. 

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Bills in both chambers of Congress would protect payment for mammography screenings before age 50

Millions of women stand to lose breast cancer screening benefits if lawmakers fail to extend the moratorium on honoring controversial USPSTF recommendations. 

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Lawmakers urge CMS to reexamine long-delayed imaging Appropriate Use Criteria program

The quality initiative has been pushed back several times, and some are concerned that it's no longer relevant and duplicates other efforts. 

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Physicians want Congress to calm ‘deepening alarm’ over 2022 Medicare practice pay cuts

Providers potentially face a 9.75% reimbursement reduction unless lawmakers intervene, advocates wrote in a recent letter to House and Senate leaders. 

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Bipartisan bill would bolster Medicare patients’ access to diagnostic imaging agents

Federal payment rules prevent certain providers from affording such radiopharmaceuticals, leaving many without access to cutting-edge diagnostics, lawmakers said.  

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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.