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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Alaska Imaging Provider Faces Certificate-of-Need Scrutiny After the Fact

State rules to regulate the health care market often pose a challenge to medical imaging facilities seeking to open a new location or expand their services. However, North Star Radiology in Fairbanks, Alaska, is in the unique situation of seeing their existing business being examined by the state’s Department of Health and Social Services.

Two-Midnights Rule Reduces Hospital Admissions

A change in reimbursement rules designed to cut down on overuse of observations stays for Medicare patients has pushed hospital admission rates down to the lowest number seen in a decade on a monthly survey conducted by Citi Research

ACR and MITA Come to Defense of Clinical Decision Support

Both organizations issued statements underlining their support for clinical decision support in advanced imaging following a op-ed by American Enterprise Institute fellow Scott Gottleib, MD.

ACR Updates Appropriateness Criteria

The latest version of the American College of Radiology's guidelines updated 29 appropriateness criteria topics and added 12 new criteria

Alliance Sells Radiology 24|7 to ONRAD

Radiology and radiation therapy services provider Alliance HealthCare Services, Inc, has sold its subsidiary Radiology 24|7, LLC, to teleradiology group ONRAD Inc. Radiology 24|7 generates approximately $15 million of revenue each year

6 Top Trends From RSNA 2013

The Radiological Society of North America's annual conference continues to be the place to take the pulse of the industry, and these were the top trends spotted by our reporting team

The 101 Largest Radiology Practices of 2013

The consolidation trend gathered steam in the radiology private-practice sector in 2013, a year in which the average size of the nation’s largest private practices increased from 46 FTE radiologist in 2012 to 50

Baron and Dunnick Named to Top Spots at RSNA

The Radiological Society of North American announced that Richard L. Baron, M.D., FACR, is its new Board chairman and N. Reed Dunnick, M.D., is its new president

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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.