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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Physicians push Congress to delay imaging Appropriate Use Criteria Program indefinitely

Dozens of medical societies signed the request, addressed to the leaders of three key congressional committees. 

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ACR wants transparency as feds work to speed up Medicare coverage for ‘breakthrough’ devices

CMS is proposing to close the so-called “valley of death” between FDA approval of imaging products and Medicare payment authorization. 

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RadNet sees ‘substantial’ rebound from pandemic woes in Q3, with sequential revenues up 53%

Leaders with the Los Angeles-based outpatient imaging giant partially credited “aggressive" cost containment measures for their rosier financial picture. 

Mednax Radiology logs $126M in Q3 revenue ahead of closing mega deal with Rad Partners

The Florida firm recorded $21.1 million in imaging earnings as it seeks regulatory approval for the business line's divestiture. 

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Radiologists experience significantly less happiness, meaning in their work than docs in other departments

This discrepancy occurred despite physicians in imaging reporting burnout rates nearly identical to their nonradiologist counterparts.

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‘A big deal’: CMS pilot puts onus on ordering providers to support necessity of radiology services

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services first announced the change in late October, which is set to take effect on Dec. 1. 

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Humana curtails coverage for PET/CT, drawing 'adamant' disagreement from imaging advocates

The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology is asking the Louisville, Kentucky-based commercial insurer to kill the payment policy change. 

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Radiology vendor Digirad to sell its mobile imaging business unit for $18.75M

DMS Health Technologies' business provides contract diagnostic imaging including CT, MRI, PET and nuclear medicine through a “convenient, mobile service.” 

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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.