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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Lantheus Holdings welcomes new board member

James Clemmer is the newest member of the Lantheus Holdings board of directors, the company announced late last week. 

Infographic: Impact of USPSTF recommendations on surgeons' habits

A study presented at the 2015 American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) Annual Meeting in Toronto looked at how surgeons viewed breast screening recommendations made by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) by surveying the recommendations they made to patients as well as their own personal screening habits.  

Medical Group Merger In Response to Changing Healthcare Market

Radiology, Inc. and LaPorte Radiology, Inc.  are pleased to announce that they will combine operations effective January 1, 2016, and operate under the name, “Radiology, Inc.” 

House passes 21st Century Cures Act

The House of Representatives voted in favor of the 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6), 344-77, sending the bill forward to the Senate. 

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MPFS proposed rule touches on Smart Dose compliance, updated values

CMS continued its busy month this week by releasing a proposed rule for changes related to the 2016 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). 

FujiFilm Sonosite announces new healthcare leadership

FUJIFILM SonoSite Inc., specialists in designing cutting-edge ultrasound tools and world-leading education for access to point-of-care visualization, today announced changes in its executive leadership, effective July 1, 2015: Naohiro Fujitani was named Chairman; and Masayuki Higuchi was named President and CEO, succeeding Mr. Fujitani in this position.  

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Independent radiology practice, it’s 2015. Do you know how your hospital sees you?

IRP

The question in the headline is not open-ended and philosophical. It is multiple-choice and strategic, as any given hospital or multi-hospital system now inevitably perceives its contracted radiology practices as occupying ground in one of only three possible capacities.

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Affiliation is the answer to consolidation, now more than ever

IRP

We’re only halfway through the current calendar year, and already radiology practice in the U.S. has been jolted by not one but two major transactions.

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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.