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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Insurer Anthem caves to radiologist pressure, lifting ‘profoundly negative’ imaging restriction

The Indianapolis-based payer had placed guardrails around reimbursement for some hospital-based imaging, but relented after "thoughtful" discussions with radvocates.  

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Quashing patients’ misconceptions about radiology while they’re parked in the waiting room

Some patients have little understanding about the role of the radiologist or how it differs from the technologist, but Belgian providers are educating consumers with a simple intervention.

Radiologists’ share of catheter-directed therapy market falls as surgeons, cardiologists gain inroads

Physicians have also increasingly performed this deep-vein thrombosis treatment on an outpatient basis, a decade's worth of Medicare claims data show. 

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Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth ink pact with DOJ pushing back proposed merger’s timeline

The two companies detailed their new “timing agreement” with the Department of Justice in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

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Radiology records smallest gain in Black faculty among medical specialties over past 30 years

This 0.32 percentage-point change since 1990 placed imaging last among 16 specialties, tied with emergency medicine, experts detailed in JAMA. 

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Out-of-pocket costs climbing for imaging services after mammography, despite ACA safeguards

Radiologists are concerned this trend could force women to skip crucial follow-up services such as MRI, ultrasound and breast biopsy. 

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For every positive COVID-19 test, radiologists record 1.2 fewer outpatient imaging exams

Northwell Health experts believe their findings offer key clues as practices navigate subsequent stages of the public health crisis. 

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Publicly traded imaging center operator Akumin forced to postpone its Q2 earnings release

Meanwhile, a Los Angeles-based law firm said Monday that it’s launching an investigation into the delay on behalf of investors. 

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American College of Radiology announces significant expansion of Lung Cancer Screening Registry

The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.

Health Imaging
AI reduces CT lung cancer screening workload by nearly 80%

And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

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.