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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The spectacular failure of Amazon’s Haven Healthcare and 4 key takeaways for radiology

Indiana University imaging experts see an opportunity for the specialty to learn from the tech offshoot's demise. 

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Radiologists must play central role in improving the patient experience. Experts offer tips

There are numerous ways members of the specialty can go above and beyond to "wow" the healthcare consumer, ACR experts say. 

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Simulator helps early career radiologists master imaging appropriateness and other concepts

Weill Cornell Medicine created the Interactive Clinical Anatomy and Radiology Utilization Simulator utilizing 25 different peer-reviewed electronic modules. 

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Health policy experts offer 3 fixes for Medicare’s ‘dysfunctional’ advanced-imaging payment system

CMS should coordinate rate-setting between OPPS and the physician fee schedule, and consider implementing prior authorization, Brookings experts argued. 

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‘Imperative’ that providers consider cancer survivors for low-dose CT screening, radiologists charge

The number of such survivors has swelled in recent years amid improvements in diagnosis and treatment, experts wrote in JACR

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Bill would bolster coverage of interventional radiology services to help Americans avoid amputations

Lawmakers recently introduced the Amputation Reduction and Compassion Act in the House, with bipartisan backing and support from the Society of Interventional Radiology

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Radiologists demand greater transparency from CMS in Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

Docs are “particularly concerned” that the dearth of data could be concealing issues with cost measures or benchmarks, 45 physician groups including the ACR wrote recently.

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It’s official: Radiology practice SimonMed inks partnership with New York private equity firm

The news comes days after an investment industry publication unearthed the reported $600M deal with American Securities, citing anonymous sources.

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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.