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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Advocacy groups, healthcare providers urge CMS to change course on LDCT reimbursement cuts

More than 80 organizations, including the American College of Radiology (ACR) and numerous healthcare systems, are asking CMS not to follow through with low-dose computer tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening reimbursement cuts included in the 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule. 

Radiologists should emphasize healthy habits to cancer patients

A new study suggests that just because patients have been diagnosed with cancer, does not mean people will automatically make positive lifestyle changes, reports the Wall Street Journal.

CT is sufficient for certain lung cancer follow-ups

Radiology departments should adopt CT follow-ups of lung cancers that manifest in nonsolid nodules, according to a study published in Radiology. Researchers from the Mount Sinai Center in New York assert that the current standard of a biopsy for a follow-up exam is unnecessary due to the nearly 100 percent survival rate of those who undergo resection.

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The rise in low-value imaging services—and how to reduce them

The U.S. has one of the most inefficient health systems in the world, with waste spending representing $750 billion of annual expenditures. Overtreatment accounts for some $200 billion, including a significant amount of unnecessary diagnostic imaging, according to the American Medical Association. 

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Imaging pregnant patients: 3 key takeaways from a recent survey

Is there a general consensus among U.S. specialists when it comes to abdominal and pelvic imaging of pregnant or potentially pregnant patients? Puneet Bhargava, MD, associate professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, and colleagues conducted a survey to find out, publishing their findings in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

Are physicians over-testing patients? New research explores the repercussions

It’s common practice by providers to get CT scans and perform procedures with every hint of disease in a patient, even if it doesn’t appear to be that serious. 

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Low-value health services are still sucking up resources, and imaging is still big in the mix

Imaging utilization figures prominently in an assessment of commercial-insurance claims that has found relatively modest use of low-value services—yet still much room for patients and physicians to choose more wisely and, in the process, save U.S. healthcare substantial sums of money. 

Don't forget to hit the gym: Exercise linked to memory

The positives of physical exercise are no secret. But new research published in the journal Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience may make you think again about skipping the gym.

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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.