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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Optimism as imaging volume dip falls below 50% for first time since pandemic’s start

Radiology business has dropped precipitously since mid-March, as providers put off nonurgent exams until safer times, but one data firm sees reason for hope. 

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Protect 'heroic' providers from legal liability, American College of Radiology urges governors

ACR has joined the country’s largest physician association in urging states to safeguard docs from malpractice suits during the COVID crisis. 

Imaging researchers warn of possible blood clot dangers from new coronavirus

The Radiological Society of North America recently released a barrage of information highlighting this emerging clinical concern. 

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Radiology provider Envision Healthcare mulling bankruptcy as COVID-19 dries up business

The Nashville physician services firm has already hired restructuring advisers and is holding back pay from doctors. 

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CMS pushing private Medicare plans to shelve prior authorization requirements during pandemic

The American College of Radiology said it has strongly urged payers to waive these provisions both during and after the current crisis. 

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How one radiology department is preparing for the oncoming ‘crisis after the crisis’

Radiologists are currently calculating what it will require to resume routine imaging in a climate that’s vastly different from the one they remember a few months prior.

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CMS allowing independent freestanding EDs to deliver imaging to Medicare, Medicaid beneficiaries

These emergency providers offer a range of services, including x-ray, CT and ultrasound, but current regulations do not allow them to bill public payers. 

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Mobile CT scanners for COVID-19 assessment get closer look from radiology researchers

Michigan Medicine's Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care is currently investigating such imaging tools, along with several others.

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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.