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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Radiology and imaging staff wages continue to rise in ‘perpetually tight labor market’

Between 2019 and 2023, such professionals saw their median total compensation climb 17.89% as practices upped their offers to best the competition, the MGMA reported. 

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Provider of in-home imaging services and 24/7 radiologist access raises $200M

Nashville-based HarmonyCares provides physician-led services to vulnerable patients who cannot travel to traditional healthcare facilities. 
 

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Hospital system forms new radiology group after relationship with Rad Partners dissolves

CEO Jim Woodward believes private equity-backed provider groups “serve their shareholders’ interest not the patients' and doctors' and hospitals' interests.” 

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Federal judge grants preliminary injunction against FTC ban on noncompete clauses

Judge Ada Brown’s decision sides with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and others, who sued in April claiming the rule is an “unlawful power grab.”

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Bipartisan senators urge CMS to bolster access to nuclear imaging in outpatient settings

Lawmakers led by Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., made their plea in a June letter to the head of the agency. 

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Implications for radiology following the FDA’s approval of new Alzheimer’s treatment from Eli Lilly

Providers are required to obtain a recent baseline brain MRI prior to initiating treatment and individuals also must undergo scans prior to the second, third, fourth and seventh infusions. 
 

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How Massachusetts General increased outpatient MRI time slot capacity by 50%

Amid increasing volumes, the Boston institution in 2019 started designing a new standalone facility utilizing new designs and processes to serve more patients. 

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Hospital system-radiology group partnership ends after 40 years

Southeast Radiology Ltd. recently terminated its partnership with Crozer Health in Upland, Pennsylvania, according to a recently published report. 

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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.