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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CMS will simplify prior authorization process that’s given radiologists headaches for years

Administrator Seema Verma recently revealed that her agency has identified such changes as a top priority in 2020.

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Radiology societies urge Congress to halt $3B in proposed cuts to NIH

Twenty-four imaging advocacy groups are asking lawmakers to stave off any cuts to the National Institutes of Health, which funds numerous radiology-related research initiatives.

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Experts raise awareness about the common traits of CT imaging super users

A certain segment of patients is prone to undergoing dozens of CT scans, potentially increasing their chance of harm from radiation and contrast agents, researchers wrote in the European Journal of Radiology. 

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Exercise over booze: Radiologists’ top 5 coping mechanisms to deal with burnout

Imaging physicians who are feeling worn out or depressed on the job prefer to hit the gym (most often in a Toyota) rather than a bottle or joint, according to a new survey.

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Yale accused of age discrimination for subjecting older radiologists, other docs to competency testing

The EEOC has filed suit against the prestigious university’s teaching hospital for forcing physicians over age 70 to take vision and neuropsychological exams. 

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Radiologists gift $150,000 toward hospital system’s new emergency room

University Radiology is donating the funds to Hackensack Meridian Health and its foundation, which will go toward construction of a $39 million new ED in Old Bridge, New Jersey. 

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‘Eye-popping numbers’: 22% of surprise medical bills include a claim from a radiologist

University of Michigan researchers recently made this discovery in a new analysis of commercial claims data, highlighted Tuesday in JAMA.

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More proof that US radiologists must abandon the ‘single-reader paradigm’

Results from a high-profile breast cancer screening program in Ireland are adding more ammunition to the argument that radiologists need help. 

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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.