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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Radiology provider Envision suspending contributions to lawmakers who opposed election certification

CEO Jim Rechtin said the pause will last through 2021, emphasizing that the physician firm’s political activities must reflect “our values as a national medical group."

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Completely eliminating shielding could exacerbate ‘radiophobia’ among patients, rad techs warn

While eliminating gonadal and fetal shielding makes sense, the specialty should not end all use of lead aprons, one imaging group warned. 

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Solis Mammography acquiring largest radiologist-owned practice in the Washington metropolitan area

Around since 1975, Progressive Radiology dubs itself as the “leading” provider of outpatient imaging services in Illinois, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. 

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UnitedHealthcare cuts noted academic system out of network, citing imaging costs 2-3 times local average

An ultrasound exam at Montefiore, for instance, runs roughly $800 more than the average in New York City, while a CT is $2,200 more expensive and an MRI $4,000 pricier, UHC claimed. 

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CMS has significantly cut interventional radiology reimbursement over the past decade

Out of 20 common IR procedures included in the analysis, only one experienced a pay increase between 2012 and 2020, researched found. 

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Early career radiologists must educate themselves about the perils of private equity-backed imaging

That's according to an opinion piece from one resident physician, published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. 

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For radiology practices, 4 financial lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic

Experts from five leading medical centers offered their money must-dos in a review published Wednesday in Academic Radiology. 

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Radiology quality-improvement program could cut imaging spending by $433M if used across Medicare

The Radiology Support, Communication and Alignment Network, or R-SCAN, operates by having referrers, rads and patients work together to bolster imaging appropriateness. 

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American College of Radiology announces significant expansion of Lung Cancer Screening Registry

The ACR hopes these changes, including the addition of diagnostic performance feedback, will help reduce the number of patients with incidental nodules lost to follow-up each year.

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AI reduces CT lung cancer screening workload by nearly 80%

And it can do so with almost 100% accuracy as a first reader, according to a new large-scale analysis.

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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.