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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Radiologist preferences driving significant cost variability in common imaging-guided procedures

Stanford scientists believe the data underline the need to educate rads about standardization to help curb costs and deliver value.

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Justice Department taking closer look at UnitedHealth’s acquisition of imaging vendor Change Healthcare

The investigation comes days after the American Hospital Association expressed “substantial antitrust concerns" around the blockbuster $13B deal. 

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Piloting a virtual radiology internship to boost underrepresented minority interest in imaging

Participants experienced a "significant shift in perception of the field" after taking part, experts detailed in Academic Radiology. 

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How coaching can help address the epidemic of burnout among radiologists

This emerging practice uses positive psychology, helping to instill three fundamental skills in physicians so they can “achieve their best selves." 

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Emphysema underdiagnosed, but low-dose CT provides opportunity to identify, intervene

Experts from numerous institutions analyzed computed tomography images from more than 50K patients for their analysis, published in Clinical Imaging. 

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Philips selling appliances business to private equity firm in deal valued at $5.2B

The Amsterdam-based imaging giant is narrowing its focus on radiology and other healthcare segments, officials said. 

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Senate passes bill to avert ‘devastating’ upcoming physician payment cuts in Medicare

The American College of Radiology and several other imaging groups recently urged lawmakers to address reductions that would total $12B in 2021. 

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Cheaper imaging-guided alternative used far less frequently than hysterectomy for postpartum bleeding

Women who had their uterus removed via this method paid $18,000 more in hospital charges when compared to uterine artery embolization, rads found.

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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.