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.

Thumbnail

RadNet leases massive space in mall revitalization project as part of hospital joint venture

Together, the Los Angeles-based imaging operator and Dignity Health plan to offer a full range of radiology services in the 24,000 square-foot center.

Thumbnail

ACR worries value-based initiatives are ignoring radiologists’ care coordination skills

A federal contractor is working to gather input on the possible development of new measures under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. 

profits revenue finance money

US Radiology Specialists faces upside and execution risk in debt-fueled expansion plans: Moody’s

USRS benefits from market concentration and business diversity, but also high leverage and modest scale,  the investor service noted. 

Thumbnail

Prominent imaging groups push for first radiology-specific artificial intelligence CPT code

The Category 3 code proposal would cover AI analysis for the detection of vertebral fractures and could take effect as soon as Jan. 1, 2022. 

Nanox

Nanox Imaging sees stock rebound sharply following sell-off, fueled by positive FDA clearance news

The Israel-based startup had announced late Monday that its stockowners were unloading nearly 2.9 million shares, dragging the price downward. 

Thumbnail

Technologist sues radiology practice, questioning details of its $164M employee stock ownership plan

Robert Harrison and his attorneys claim employees overpaid in the deal and are seeking a jury trial to settle the legal dispute. 

social media mobile phone apps reddit

Reddit presents ‘high-yield’ opportunity for radiologists to engage with peers and patients

Popular topics on the online forum include case presentations, humor, and imaging appropriateness, NYU Langone experts wrote recently. 

Thumbnail

Radiology could witness ‘enforcement perfect storm’ as feds ratchet up pressure in 2021

COVID-19 relief funds could be one area of scrutiny, with such programs doling out billions of dollars to the healthcare industry to counter catastrophic losses, experts said.

Around the web

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.