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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Radiology groups part of 1M provider coalition urging Congress to quash future Medicare pay cuts

The ACR and numerous others want lawmakers to stop using budget neutrality to enact “arbitrary reductions to reimbursement unrelated to the cost of providing care.”

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American Board of Radiology says ‘persistent barriers’ preventing it from reducing user fees

The doc-certification group recently switched to a virtual exam business model and anticipated the change would help reduce costs.

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Radiology practice helps administer COVID-19 vaccinations using its mobile mammography units

Desert Imaging plans to partner with El Paso County to transport doses of the lifesaving drug to vulnerable members of the community.

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Radiology practice bolsters bottom line by pushing benefits specialists to the forefront

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia believes more patients are choosing their imaging services because of recent cost transparency efforts.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically affected radiologists’ happiness outside of work

Only about 60% of rads felt fulfilled during their off-the-clock hours, a 22 percentage point dip from the previous year.

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Siemens scores regulatory approval for $16.4B acquisition of Varian Medical Systems

The Germany-based imaging giant is promising its equipment will work with rival's products in exchange for the determination, officials announced. 

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White House taps Obama administration vet as potential first Black woman to lead CMS

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure previously served as a top health official working to implement the Affordable Care Act and aided President Biden’s team in assessing HHS during the administration switchover.

‘We’re cheap’: Following radiology exit, Mednax opts not to change name back to Pediatrix

The Sunrise, Florida, physician firm had originally hoped to rebrand as a nod to its start as a single neonatology group in 1979. 

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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.