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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Outpatient imaging suffers massive declines at mega hospital system located in COVID epicenter

Investigators from Northwell Health hope such data could prove pivotal in making a case for further relief from federal and state governments. 

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Justice Department joins lawsuit accusing radiology practice of delivering contrast imaging without supervision

A former consultant to the 11-practice provider first filed suit in 2013, with the DOJ recently announcing its “partial” intervention. 

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United Healthcare will now reimburse for coronary CT angiography as ‘first line’ test

The nation’s largest commercial health insurer said the update took effect last month and applies to its policyholders with low or intermediate risk of coronary artery disease. 
 

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One state’s hospitals saw $650M drop in revenue, with radiology cancellations a key factor

New Jersey providers have been beset by a double whammy of financial challenges during the pandemic, with hospital expenses also increasing by $214 million per month. 

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Pandemic-induced economic recession will likely hinder radiologist recruitment for years

Such was the case in 2009, when the Great Recession brought about a “protracted, seven-year struggle” to recruit medical students into the specialty, experts wrote in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology. 

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COVID’s positive side: Collegiality and public awareness up in radiology, expert says

Jeffrey Klein, MD, a professor of radiology at the University of Vermont, highlighted a few of his reasons for remaining upbeat in a recently posted commentary.

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Hospital system opens ‘first of its kind’ center offering imaging to COVID survivors

Mount Sinai Health System, located in the heart of America’s outbreak, said its Center for Post-COVID Care will harness advanced diagnostic tools and treatment from radiologists, cardiologists and a host of other specialties

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Radiology practice launches marketing campaign to attract patients as it reopens locations

Montclair Radiology is promoting its new virtual registration and check-in process, which it says is designed to mitigate transmission of COVID-19 by eliminating contact between patients and providers. 

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Health Imaging
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.