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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Delaying starting age for mammography won’t reduce overdiagnoses

A survey of almost six million breast exams found not one case of untreated cancer had regressed by the next mammogram—refuting the notion that overdiagnosis could be reduced by delaying the starting age for mammography screening or increasing the interval between exams.

OSU rads use Six Sigma to streamline IR scheduling

A Six Sigma intervention at an academic interventional radiology (IR) department can be used as a template to streamline scheduling across other specialties, according to a Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR) study.

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Help wanted: Open positions have increased for rad techs in 2017

In the latest ASRT Radiologic Sciences Staffing and Workplace Survey 2017, data show that the number of positions that are open and actively being recruited for radiologic technologists increased in 2017.

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Regulatory agencies on the lookout for overpayments—and how practices can avoid fate of Zwanger-Pesiri

A Long-Island radiology practice agreed to pay more than $10 million late last year to settle two counts of healthcare fraud related to performing and billing pelvic ultrasounds. This settlement raised regulatory eyebrows, according to a presentation at RBMA’s PaRADigm 2017 meeting, and imaging practices should take steps to ensure they aren’t making the same mistakes.

RBMA announces board of directors, officers for 2017-2018

The Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) has announced its newly elected volunteer board members and officers for 2017-2018. 

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ASRT CEO Sal Martino named an ASAE Fellow

American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) CEO and executive director Sal Martino has been named a Fellow of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), joining the ranks of the less than 1 percent who earn this distinction. 

Women increasingly involved in ACR leadership roles since 2001

To assess the trends of women in voluntary leadership roles in the American College of Radiology (ACR) from 2001 to 2015, researchers collected retrospective records from the organization's membership database.

Samsung continues foray into diagnostic imaging with radiography unit

Samsung is adding a new digital radiography unit to its growing roster of medical imaging equipment, receiving FDA 501(k) approval for the GC70 Digital Radiography system.

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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.