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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Breast cancer surpasses lung as the most commonly diagnosed form of the disease

The analysis does not account for the COVID-19 pandemic, and experts worry about a surge in late-stage diagnoses down the line. 

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State seeks to punish interventional radiologist who operated on wrong patient

Health officials want to impose penalties against the doc after he allegedly placed an IVC filter in a patient who didn't need one. 

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Radiologists play key role in transgender patients’ facial feminization surgery

UCSF experts recently offered up a checklist, reporting template and advice for rads working with surgeons on these cases. 

UCLA suspends brain imaging study amid ‘grave concerns’ from LGBTQ advocates

The institution was gathering MRI scans to understand the transgender identity, but some believe the effort is unethical and could trigger dysphoria and distress.

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Publicly traded radiology provider paying $750,000 to settle allegations of unsupervised imaging

Akumin Corp. allegedly administered more than 1,500 exams either without supervision or proof of such physician oversight, the DOJ said. 

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American College of Radiology urges CMS to scale back ‘excessive’ cuts in mandatory payment model

ACR chief executive William Thorwarth Jr., MD, is also "alarmed" at the number of small and rural practices required to participate in the value-based care initiative. 

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Radiology department partners with Aetna to expedite prior authorization requests

University of Virginia Health did so by deploying a clinical decision support system to guide ordering providers, according to a study in JACR.

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CT-equipped, teleradiology-backed mobile stroke units bolster outcomes over traditional ambulances

That's according to a new prospective, nonrandomized, controlled intervention study, published in JAMA. 

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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.