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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Envision Healthcare names new CEO, says surprise billing inquiry didn’t influence change

The investor-owned company is one of the nation's largest multispecialty, facility-based physician groups, leading a team of more than 900 radiologists.  

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6 steps interventional radiology can take to prepare for the coronavirus

Experts from Singapore General Hospital recently detailed some of their lessons learned in a new editorial. 

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CDC: States falling woefully short on low-dose CT cancer screening goals; ACR pushes pay fix

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than 87% of those recommended for such scans never received them, according to research released Thursday.  

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Early onset dementia diagnoses surge 200%, with imaging playing a key part

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association reported this trend among commercially insured Americans between the ages of 30 to 64, with an average age at diagnosis of 49.

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12 emergency departments make ‘honor roll’ for reducing avoidable imaging spending by millions

Since the American College of Emergency Physicians launched the effort, participating EDs have saved some $55 million from avoiding unnecessary imaging and hospitalizations. 

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100-year-old Oregon imaging practice joins Strategic Radiology's growing coalition

Diagnostic Imaging Northwest’s history stretches back to the 1920s, with the 12-rad practice introducing its state’s first CT scanner and breast imaging center. 

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Radiologist can sue former practice over $127,000 pension cut, judge rules

A West Virginia radiologist can move forward with a lawsuit against his former practice, charging that he was shorted pension pay.

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Legal expert worries ‘shadowy,’ radiology-backing private equity firms will derail surprise billing fix

One professor of law shared her pessimism about the process in a new piece, published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

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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.