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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CMS overhauls physician self-referral regs, while doc groups say Stark Law still ‘beyond comprehension’

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently issued what it called a "historic" update in a bid to "unleash innovation" in medicine. 

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Ultrasound maker Butterfly Network’s $1.5B merger, Philips beats antitrust claims, plus more vendor news

Also, GE Healthcare's new acquisition, Subtle Medical raises $12 million, and Fujifilm enters a new market in imaging. 

Practice agrees to pay $1.4M for allegedly delivering teleradiology services from outside the US

The Department of Justice claims that Mori, Bean and Brooks fraudulently billed government payment programs for the interpretation work between 2012 and 2019. 

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Providers blunt skyrocketing use of CT for pulmonary embolism, but numbers still climbing

CTPA delivery leapt 450% between 2004 and 2016, but efforts from Choosing Wisely and others may have made a dent, experts detailed in JAMA Network Open. 

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Stanford addresses controversial radiologist Scott Atlas’ ‘rise up’ comments, while others demand his firing

The Hoover Institution fellow and White House COVID-19 advisor drew fire earlier this week for urging Michigan residents to stand up against further lockdowns. 

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Patient experience, human design thinking crucial for radiologists seeking normalcy amid pandemic

RSNA's COVID-19 Task Force is now looking to better understand the factors that go into patients’ decisions to seek, or delay, imaging care. 

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Radiologists spend $14,680 on certification over a 30-year career, topping most specialties

The finding is part of a new report from the American College of Radiology’s Task Force on Certification. 

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‘Dead wrong’: American College of Radiology sounds alarm over low doc engagement on high-impact issue

The Radiology Advocacy Network is trying to drum up support for a bill to grant rads a pay hike, but they're seeing historically low response rates. 

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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.