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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 provider Akumin breaks long radio silence after emerging from bankruptcy

The Florida-based imaging and radiation therapy group is launching new “relocatable and expandable” outpatient centers to be deployed across the U.S. 

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Radiology Business Announces Forty Under 40 Class of 2024

We set out to find radiology and imaging up-and-comers under 40 who stand out, landing on a laudable list of radiologists, interventionalists, business leaders, researchers, entrepreneurs, educators, AI developers, technologists and mentors.

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Doc offices more than double use of nonphysicians for interpreting medical images

The Journal of the American College of Radiology analysis sparked a spirited discussion on social media Wednesday after it was published. 

Orano Med breaks ground on $265M thorium production site

The new 7,000-square-meter plant is located in France and will begin production of thorium-228, necessary for the development of isotopes used in cancer treatments. 

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Radiology at a crossroads: Hopes and concerns for a second Trump administration

In this RB opinion piece, Radiology Business Management Association leaders discuss what President-elect Trump's 2nd term might mean for the specialty. 

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Patients frequently fail to obtain follow-up imaging. Could radiologist-referrer disagreements be to blame?

Harvard researchers recently set out to answer this question, sharing their results Friday in the Journal of the American College of Radiology 

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3 modifiable factors that make radiology reports easier for patients to understand

European imaging experts believe it’s essential that provider groups heed this advice and improve the formatting of their work. 

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Massachusetts governor signs bill to expand coverage for breast imaging services

"This legislation will help ensure that cost is not a barrier for women to get the screenings," Gov. Maura Healey (D) said in a statement. 

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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.