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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Imaging wasn’t enough. Now Walmart is moving into the insurance realm.

The Arkansas-based corporation recently announced the launch of its new business line, Walmart Insurance Services, and is already licensed in all 50 states. 

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Senator Susan Collins joins fight against ‘devastating’ CMS pay cuts to radiology

The long-tenured lawmaker voiced her support for the physician community in a letter to Mitch McConnell and other Senate leaders. 

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Imaging manufacturer pays $18M to settle whistleblower suit; GE’s FDA win, plus more vendor news

Also, Carestream launches its own talk show, Ambra Health expands its partnership with Rad-Aid and more marketplace moves. 

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Politician under fire for calling radiologists redundant, comparing profession to grocery store cashiers

The comments have ignited controversy among local physicians, who have asked the finance official for a meeting to discuss his remarks. 

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Planned Medicare cuts will ‘cripple specialty providers,’ radiology groups warn congressional leaders

Imaging groups are continuing their full-court press on the House and Senate, seeking to avert tens of millions in payment reductions slated for Jan. 1. 

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Radiology is the most mentally demanding physician specialty, with heavy workload likely contributing to burnout

Radiologists self-reported one of the highest “physician task load” scores of any specialty, experts wrote in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

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CMS outlines new repayment terms for Medicare advances sent to radiologists during economic downturn

All told, the feds have doled out $106 billion in payments to smooth over cash flow issues as imaging and other patient volume dried up in March. 

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How radiology can mitigate anti-Asian bias and xenophobia during the COVID crisis

Imaging practices must make concerted efforts to address both subtle and overt instances of racism, experts wrote recently in JACR. 

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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.