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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41 Medical Societies Call for Quick Coverage on LDCT for Lung Cancer Screening

In an uncommon demonstration of agreement, 41 medical organizations delivered a consensus document to CMS calling for quick coverage of low-dose CT lung cancer screening for high-risk patients.

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A 21 Gun Salute to the RBMA Quest Marketing Award Winners

On Monday, March 10, the RBMA Quest Marketing Award winners were announced during the organization’s annual Building Better Radiology marketing Programs in Long Beach.

Interpreting HIE Enrollment Numbers

CMS reported on March 11, 2014, that enrollments in the national health insurance exchanges (HIEs) have reached 4.2 million individuals, with 20 days until the enrollment deadline. While this number is not close to the originally targeted 6 million enrollees, the administration is touting this as a successful achievement. The CMS numbers have already been analyzed and interpreted from many different angles. 

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California RBMA Chapter Sets Sail on the Queen Mary

The California Chapter of the RBMA convened Friday on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, with an agenda that addressed a quartet of the most compelling issues in radiology today: quality, the transition to ICD-10, and state and federal legislative and regulatory news.

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3 Marketing Flubs Limited Latino Enrollment in CA Exchange

In a state where Latinos are a percentage point away from the dominant ethnicity, California made some critical mistakes in rolling out its Hispanic marketing campaign for the state’s healthcare exchange, Covered California, according to a report from Kaiser Health News (KHN).

AMIC Says White House Budget Threatens Patient Access to Medical Imaging

Coalition Urges Administration to Follow Congress’ Lead by Adopting Appropriate Use CriteriaWashington, D.C. – The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) today expressed concern that President Obama’s 2015 budget would harm patient access to advanced medical imaging technologies by implementing prior authorization requirements through radiology benefit managers (RBMs).

Obama FY2015 Budget Takes Aim at Self-referral, Calls for Pre-Auth

In a good-news–bad-news scenario for the radiology community, President Obama’s $3.9 trillion 2015 fiscal year budget would limit the self-referral rampant in advanced imaging and radiation oncology, but implement prior authorization for advanced imaging.

Expected Extension for Insurance Policies Not Meeting Law

According to an article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the Obama administration plans to make an announcement as early as next week to continue to let insurers sell policies that don’t comply with the new federal health law for at least 12 more months. This would be the second such delay, and some believe the effort is being made to avert another wave of policy cancelations and negative press for the administration. 

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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.