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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Diagnostic delays the most common cause of patient injury in radiology

Meanwhile, mammography is the modality most commonly involved in these incidents, according to a new decades-long data dive. 

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Moody’s sees execution risk in radiology firm Akumin’s $820M acquisition of Alliance Healthcare Services

The investor service cited publicly traded Akumin's modest scale, geographic concentration in Texas and Florida, high debt leverage, and risk tied to its "aggressive" growth strategy. 

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CMS erects ‘unexpected’ new barriers to payment for PET imaging in certain scenarios

The feds published an updated list of nationally covered imaging indications and surprisingly excluded some scans, to providers' dismay. 

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Radiologist resigns from hospital post after social media comments accusing Israel of ‘cannibalism’

Three private law firms have agreed to represent the pediatric radiologist accusing Phoenix Children's of wrongful termination. 

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Radiologists want nuance in how CMS calculates physician practices’ administrative and overhead costs

Previous data underrepresented office-based physicians, and that’s led to some “dramatic undercalculation” of practice expenses, advocates argued recently. 

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Surprise billing ban rollout must match congressional intent, ACR and bipartisan lawmakers urge feds

Members of the U.S. House urged new Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra while implementing these "landmark patient protections."

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Private equity-backed Center for Diagnostic Imaging changes name, acquires another radiology practice

Minneapolis-based CDI will now go by the moniker Rayus Radiology, selected from hundreds of options after a refresh undertaken with branding agency Ludwig+.

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Radiology provider Akumin to acquire Alliance Healthcare Services for $820M

The publicly traded, Florida-based imaging center operator is making a play into oncology and other rad-related services with the blockbuster deal. 

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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.