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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Medical board federation proposes expedited licensing process

The Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) has published model legislation that would ease credentialing requirements for physicians who provide telemedicine outside their home state’s borders—while preserving the primacy of the states in licensing physicians.

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The Consolidation Beat Goes On: Annual Report on The 20 Largest Outpatient Imaging-center Chains

Reimbursement cuts are being met by cost-cutting initiatives in a still-fragmented outpatient imaging-center market.

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Patient Communications: Radiology’s New Imperative

Propelled by everything from regulatory requirements to patient centricity, all roads point toward direct communications with patients by radiologists.

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Radiology of Huntsville: Laying the Groundwork for Risk Assumption

A private practice in Alabama invests in IT and relationships in advance of participating in a Medicaid regional-care organization.

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The Rewards of Risk: Radiology Takes The Leap

Radiology departments and practices have begun to gravitate away from fee for service and into the realm of risk and value-based medicine.

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Proceed with Care to ICD-10 Deadline

After a false start or two, CMS has set a final ICD-10 implementation deadline for October 1, 2015, as widely expected. 

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Four Questions for Business Model Innovators

Almost all businesses have to re-examine and renovate their business model from time to time, and healthcare providers are no exception.

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Negotiation Bootcamp

Will Latham, principal of Latham Consulting Group (Charlotte, NC), is in the business of helping medical groups make decisions and resolve conflicts—which means teaching the art of negotiation. 

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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.