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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More than 75% of radiology providers have resumed regular breast imaging, with a few new twists

Roughly 5% of such providers are actually seeing patient volumes that are higher than pre-COVID levels, according to a new analysis.  

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Establishing a post-COVID ‘capacity review process’ to gauge how a radiology practice is performing

As California has navigated step two of the governor’s reopening roadmap, Keck Medicine of USC has implemented a “phased and triaged” approach to working through its own deferred care backlog. 

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What recent changes to the Paycheck Protection Program mean for your radiology practice

President Donald Trump recently signed the PPP Flexibility Act of 2020 into law, following unanimous passage in the Senate.

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‘Devastating impact’: Imaging groups implore American Board of Radiology to target testing alternatives

The newly formed Multispecialty Early Radiologic Career Coalition is appealing the ABR to either administer tests virtually—as other specialty boards are doing during the pandemic—or at local testing centers around the country. 

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American College of Radiology expresses ‘significant concerns’ over easing physician supervision requirements

CEO William Thorwarth Jr., MD, outlined ACR’s apprehension in a recent letter to the head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. 

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Longtime Indiana interventional radiologist who never missed a day on the job dies from COVID-19

Franklin Sequeira, 72, of Cicero, passed away on June 1 after a months-long battle with the disease, according to his family. 

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Mednax to sell its $550M Radiology Solutions business line, change name back to Pediatrix

The Florida physician firm had been in advanced discussions to exit imaging before the pandemic and plans to move forward with a sale "when market conditions are appropriate."

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American Board of Radiology pushing back most exams until next year, forgoing virtual alternative

Some had hoped that the board might make an exception and allow for remote test-taking in 2020, but that is not the case. 

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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.

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.