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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Radiologists should consider unionizing to counter specialty’s corporate takeover, expert says

Taking this step would come with numerous obstacles, but it’s certainly worth weighing, argues professor and neuroradiologist Arvind Vijayasarathi, MD, MBA, MPH. 

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Radiology Partners teams with nonprofit to deliver imaging services in underserved communities

The El Segundo, California-based imaging giant said it soon plans to begin working with Rad-Aid International, targeting low- and middle-income geographies that lack access to healthcare. 

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Noncompete clause fails to snuff radiology salesman’s jump to tech startup

VRad had sought an injunction to stop Michael Rabern from continuing his duties at Silicon Valley-based teleradiology company Nines Inc. 

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Nearly 90% of early career radiologists believe corporatization is harming the speciality

Another 83% said they’d prefer to work for an independent practice, rather than one owned by a corporation, researchers reported in March’s Journal of the American College of Radiology

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Radiology’s share of bone marrow biopsy market surges by 262%, with room for further growth

Experts from several institutions recently highlighted this trend in a new analysis published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. 

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American Board of Radiology canceling exams in response to coronavirus outbreak

In particular, the doc-certification nonprofit said it’s canning both diagnostic radiology and radioisotope safety testing slated for April 6 in Tucson, Arizona.

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ACR, major doc groups urge feds to heed ‘dire’ consequences of surprise billing in California

U.S. political leaders have recently cleared the logjam of proposals on Capitol Hill related to this hot-button issue, and are now working to reconcile their differences.

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Patient shielding is no longer necessary, major radiology groups declare

The Royal College of Radiology, British Institute of Radiology and others said their guidance is based on mounds of evidence.

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The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

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.

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.