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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Nation’s largest teleradiology groups struggle to take on new business amid surging demand

Reno Radiological Associates is on the hunt for someone to help "decompress" its on-site rads, but the private practice has struggled to find help in a hyper-competitive market. 

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FDA adds dozens of AI-enabled radiology applications to list of clearances

Around two-thirds of all approved artificial intelligence-powered clinical devices are catered to radiology settings.

CMS may double Medicare payments for cardiac CT

The agency is gathering feedback on a proposal to double the amount hospitals are paid for coronary computed tomography angiography, with the comment period ending Sept. 9.

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Diagnostic mammograms not superior to screening for women with breast pain

A screen first approach for women who present with breast pain decreases healthcare spending without the risk of overlooking cancer, new analysis shows.

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3D printing use in radiology saves an estimated 41 minutes, $2,500 per case

RSNA and ACR in 2020 established a registry aimed at collecting standardized data on 3D printing performed in healthcare facilities, sharing their insights in a new analysis. 

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Wake Radiology joins independent practice coalition, announces key physician’s retirement

Based in Raleigh, North Carolina, and founded in 1953, the practice is the 40th to join Strategic Radiology and seventh in the state.

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ACR urges Congress to address ‘suboptimal’ Medicare local coverage determination process

The college's concerns came in response to a recent RFI from U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Larry Bucshon, MD, R-Ind., on ways to modify healthcare policy. 

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Simple automated protocol halves radiology workstations' energy consumption

Although much of the energy consumed by imaging departments is unavoidable, experts propose that small, seemingly insignificant changes can be an effective means of reducing radiology’s carbon footprint. 

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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.

Cardiovascular Business
GE HealthCare moves PET/CT scanner production to United States

The all-in-one Omni Legend PET/CT scanner is now being manufactured in a new production facility in Waukesha, Wisconsin.