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.

Dave Walker explains how AI is helping improve the revenue cycle in radiology. #RBMA #RBMA24 #RBMA2024

Use of AI in radiology revenue cycle management

Dave Walker, senior director of revenue cycle, Radiology Associates of North Texas, explains how his practice uses artificial intelligence for revenue cycle management during the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) 2024 meeting.

Alzheimer’s imaging experts to assess utility, efficiency of Hyperfine’s Swoop system

Is portable MRI suitable for finding abnormalities in the brains of patients receiving new amyloid-targeting therapy for Alzheimer’s disease? Clinical researchers are about to find out.

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ACR institute recognizes 9 up-and-coming radiology leaders

The American College of Radiology has named the 2024 winner of its Impact in Leadership Award as well as eight Emerging Leader Scholarship awardees. All were selected through the ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI).

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For radiology trainees eager to serve the less fortunate, home is where the need is

Radiology residents are no slackers when it comes to “giving back.” However, many seem to believe they must travel abroad to find medically underserved populations in serious need of charitable medical care.

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Raleigh Radiology and Duke battle it out over state’s certificate-of-need law

The practice's mobile MR unit imaged nearly 2,400 patients in 2022, and leaders are projecting 94% growth by next year. 

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RadNet closes more than $1B debt refinancing transaction

Leaders said previously that the publicly traded imaging provider will use the proceeds to fuel growth in Houston and elsewhere. 

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Abortion is an essential component of healthcare, majority of ACR Council rules

“We want the policy that governs access to healthcare in our country to be informed by the evidence,” supporter Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, told Radiology Business

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Private equity-backed radiology provider Solis Mammography inks joint venture deal with large hospital system

The “nation's largest independent provider of specialized breast health services” is teaming with Northwest Healthcare to expand imaging offerings in the Tucson region.

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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.