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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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Radiologist trainees prevail in 69% of rare malpractice cases brought against them

Radiology litigation most frequently involved alleged misdiagnoses or procedural complications, Emory University experts wrote in JACR. 

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41% of radiologists separated from at least one practice recently, underscoring specialty’s growing mobility

Imaging experts are concerned this trend could potentially stifle innovation and entrepreneurship among the physician workforce. 

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UnitedHealthcare’s revised CT payment policy ‘threatens’ the patient-physician relationship, advocates warn

The nation’s largest commercial insurer—covering some 70 million Americans—first implemented its imaging reimbursement update in the spring, drawing concern from the field. 

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‘Lockdowns kill people’: Radiologist and White House COVID advisor Scott Atlas blasts colleagues

The neuroradiologist and fellow of Stanford’s Hoover Institution labeled fellow coronavirus counselor Anthony Fauci a "political animal" in a recent interview. 

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Pulmonary nodules following a lung transplant require ‘aggressive’ diagnostic evaluation, experts caution

Henry Ford providers recently detailed the rare case of a 70-year-old woman who developed a large nodule four years after the procedure.

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Envision inks in-network radiology deal with Humana, Akumin’s Q3 earnings, plus more company news

Also, Irish teleradiology leader sells for almost $19 million, SimonMed's latest partnership, and New Jersey practice changes its name. 

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Top nuclear imaging group ‘strongly disagrees’ with Humana’s decision to refuse coverage for PET/CT

The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging said the move denies patients access to potentially lifesaving technologies.

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Radiology among 74 medical groups pressing politicians to protect providers from ‘devastating’ pay cuts

ACR, SNMMI and others voiced their support this week for the “Holding Providers Harmless from Medicare Cuts During COVID-19 Act."

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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.

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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.