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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Private equity-backed Rayus Radiology acquiring 100-rad practice, adding 45 new hospital partners

Foundation Radiology utilizes a hybrid model with on-site rads operating in seven states and a 24/7, year-round teleradiology service. 

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CMS dropping coverage restrictions around PET imaging outside of oncology care

The noncoverage determination dates to 2000, when CMS enacted broad, national restrictions for using positron emission tomography scans outside of cancer treatment. 

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Virtual radiology consultations during primary care visits help maximize specialty’s value

Mass General recently experimented with this change, videoing in rads to discuss imaging results during regular PCP checkups. 

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Physician advocates for change after 36-year-old radiologist sibling’s death by suicide

Michelle Chestovich, MD, said her sister had been diagnosed with post-partum anxiety, and her role as a radiologist likely added further pressure. 

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Hospitals dodging imaging price transparency rule could face fines as high as $2M, CMS says

The federal agency began requiring institutions to provide upfront pricing for radiology services on Jan. 1, but many have ignored the mandate, officials said. 

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Independent radiology residents more productive on overnights than those in 24-7 attending models

Rads operating in autonomous training environments interpreted about 33% more cases than those working with around-the-clock attending coverage. 

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High-profile $100M mammography trial gains steam, hitting 50,000-participant mark

The National Cancer Institute at one point had considered quashing the Tomosynthesis Mammography Imaging Screening Trial, but organizers are optimistic after recent upticks. 

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Female physicians order more imaging than men, produce lower mortality rates

That's according to a new cross-sectional study incorporating nearly 172,000 treated across several hospitals, published in JAMA Health Forum.

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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.