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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Radiologists recommend appropriate incidental findings follow-up often, not always

Over the course of one month, radiologists reading CT scans of the abdomen and pelvis recommended appropriate follow-up for incidental findings (IFs) over 90% of the time, failing primarily when the IF was an aneurysm, according to findings made available by Steven Boe, MD, and colleagues at the American College of Radiology’s ACR 2015 Annual Meeting.

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Free tool for jobseekers ISO short-term healthcare work

Locum tenens physicians and other healthcare workers looking for temporary gigs—along with healthcare providers hoping to employ them—have a new mobile and online tool to quickly find one another. 

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Nerve tumors shown open to exposure by diffusion tensor imaging

A neurosurgeon and a neuroradiologist have put their heads together and come up with a new way to map nerve fibers with fine precision prior to removing a particular type of nerve tumor.

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Hit hard by health reform, some private payers looking to dramatically raise rates

A battle over big bucks is looming as major private health insurers in some states seek to aggressively hike premiums for plans they sold through Affordable Care Act exchanges. The companies angling for the biggest increases cite ballooning costs incurred by new enrollees. Consumer groups are preparing to push state insurance regulators to force the carriers to scale back their requests.

21st Century Cures Act moves to the House—with provision to kill the PC MPPR

The 21st Century Cures Act (H.R. 6) unanimously passed out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee today, and it includes a provision to repeal radiology's much-reviled 25% professional component multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR).

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AHA president testifies against physician self-referral

Rich Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association (AHA), testified at a House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing this week, speaking out against the practice of self-referral.

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Radiologist named president-elect of Kansas Medical Society

Robert C. Gibbs, MD, has been elected president-elect of the Kansas Medical Society, a two-year pathway to becoming the organization’s president.  

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Oklahoma physician earns American College of Radiology Gold Medal

Reston, Va. — Carl R. Bogardus, Jr., MD, FACR, Professor, Clinical Director and Vice Chairman of the Department of Radiation Oncology at Oklahoma University Medical Center, has been awarded the American College of Radiology (ACR) Gold Medal for outstanding achievement.

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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.