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 100 Demonstrates Dynamic Market

As radiology groups prepare for value-driven medicine, growth continues to be a strategy

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ICD-10: Springboard to Value-based Reimbursement

The greatest challenge of coding and billing operations in implementing ICD-10 over the past year has nothing to do with coders or billing personnel.

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Fighting for Fairness—for Physicians and Patients

Out-of-pocket healthcare costs continue to rise, while insurance coverage narrows.

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Closing in on Outcomes: Radiology Attempts to Close the Loop

Radiologists are getting serious about medical imaging outcomes in patients

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Come Together: Alignment Models Proliferate in Radiology

The highly fragmented sector of radiology practice is experimenting with confederation models to remain competitive with national radiology services providers

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PACS 3.0: The Next Iteration of Radiology’s Reading Platform

Three PACS veterans share future hopes and past disappointments about radiology’s great gift to the digital healthcare enterprise

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Final MACRA ruling beneficial for radiologists

A greater number of imaging specialists may be able to take advantage of the “non-patient facing” exemption outlined in the final ruling on the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA), released today by CMS.

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The Ever-expanding Role of the Radiologist

Journalism, public relations, and marketing: Today’s specialists are expected to do it all

Around the web

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.