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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IAC Research Award Program 2016 Call for Proposals

The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) Research Committee seeks to support innovative and meritorious research relevant to accreditation and quality improvement through its annual IAC Research Award Program.

Rao named chair of RSNA Board of Directors

Vijay M. Rao, MD, was named chair of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors at last week’s RSNA 2016 annual meeting in Chicago. 

ACR-RBMA leadership forum coming in January 2016

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) are co-hosting the ACR-RBMA Practice Leaders Forum from Jan. 15-17, 2016. 

Former students to sue college for removing rad tech accreditation months before graduation

Recent graduates of the radiologic technology program at Orange County Community College (OCCC) in Middletown, N.Y., plan on suing the school for removing its Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT) accreditation just months before graduation. 

RSNA board of directors announces new president, president-elect

The Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Board of Directors made two big executive announcements this week at the RSNA 2015 annual meeting in Chicago, naming Richard L. Baron, MD, its newest president and Richard L. Ehman, MD, its newest president-elect. 

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RSNA—Then and now

It was 40 years ago this year—on Nov. 30, 1975, to be precise—that RSNA put Chicago’s Palmer House Hilton in its rearview and moved its scientific assembly and annual meeting to McCormick Place. With three exceptions (Atlanta in ’79, Dallas in ’80 and Washington in ’84), radiology’s big dance has been there ever since. 

Value-Based Payment Modifier informal review period ends Dec. 16

CMS published a reminder this week that the informal review period for the 2016 Value-Based Payment Modifier ends Dec. 16, 2015.

Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg Ranks Among Largest Radiology Practices for 2nd Consecutive Year

Radiologic Associates of Fredericksburg (RAF) has been recognized as one of the 100 largest privately owned radiology practices in the U.S. for the second consecutive year by Radiology Business Journal. 

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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.