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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Absenteeism leaps in radiology amid COVID-19 vaccine rollout, highlighting need for future planning

One large health system lost more than 344 hours of employee time due to this interruption, mostly split between radiologic technologists and nurses. 

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Radiologists and others launching large-scale initiative to tackle incidental lung nodule blind spot

Some 850 lung cancer centers of excellence are helping pinpoint nodule-management best practices and offering guidance to providers without programs in place. 

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Radiologists who use ‘dysfunctional’ coping strategies increase risk of experiencing anxiety by 125%

"Behavioral disengagement" produced the greatest uptick at 169%, according to international survey results shared June 8 in Academic Radiology. 

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5 pitfalls radiologists should avoid during malpractice depositions

Radiologists rarely provide such testimony, posing challenges when confronted by an experienced attorney, experts wrote. 

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UnitedHealthcare updates ‘onerous’ prior authorization process following ACR objections

The nation's largest commercial insurer recently started forcing physicians to jump through extra hoops before getting paid for certain outpatient services. 

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Quality effort yields significant drop in kidney stone CT radiation exposure

The multifaceted approach included education and personalized consultation to help radiologists adopt reduced-radiation imaging protocols. 

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A practice ‘imperative’: Schooling referrers on interventional radiology’s broad range of services

IR predominantly relies on referrals, and physicians must help to increase awareness among peers with little knowledge about the subspecialty, experts charged.

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Imaging firm cutting one-third of workforce; US Radiology Specialists' partnership, plus more vendor news

Also, Butterfly Network building a new headquarters, Hyperfine names a CEO, and ImaginAb raises $12.8 million in funding. 

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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.