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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‘Burnout’ is no longer enough; radiology and other specialties suffering ‘moral injury’

Oftentimes, clinicians know what their patients need, but the bureaucracy of healthcare and its drive toward profit can prevent them from doing so, experts say. 

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Ascension, radiologists form joint venture to open series of freestanding imaging centers

A multi-state diagnostic radiology network is partnering with the Catholic hospital giant to provide more convenient care. 

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Commercial insurers spent at least $192M on low-value imaging in one year alone

The finding was part of a larger exploration of healthcare waste, published recently by consulting firm Altarum. 

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Radiologist experts say CT alone not enough to rule out the presence of coronavirus

That’s one of the key takeaways from a new special report, published in the journal Radiology. 

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Price shopping for radiology services near ‘impossible’ thanks to confusing business practices

Wide variability is making it a monumental task to compare apples to apples from one hospital to the next, researchers determined. 

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Imaging industry giants stepping up to help quell deadly coronavirus threat

Big-name players are doing their part to address the growing threat from the disease, which has now killed more than 360 individuals and sickened thousands more.

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Walmart continues its push into imaging, primary care with new clinic

The retail giant is extending its play into the healthcare space, opening a second center offering everything from diagnostic services to optometry. 

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Whistleblowing surgeon claims hospital system forced him to use in-network radiologists

A Florida orthopedist is suing Orlando Health, alleging the hospital chain repeatedly reprimanded him for performing surgeries elsewhere and failing to use its own imaging center. 

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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.