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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Can Radiology Practices Get Ahead of the Curve in 2014?

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If you work in radiology group practice, it’s likely you are considering your market position and evaluating whether you should be growing—if you haven’t expanded already. Depth of subspecialization, round-the-clock service and economies of scale are all necessities for imaging in markets experiencing consolidation. In short, if your hospital and health system customers are increasing in size, you should be as well.

Bipartisan CDS Bill Drops Ahead of SGR Patch

HR 3705 would require clinicians to utilize clinical decision support tools to help them adhere to appropriateness criteria for advanced imaging

House Budget Deal Continues Medicare 2% Cut, Delays SGR Repeal

The bipartisan budget deal the House debates today would continue the 2% across-the-board sequester on Medicare payments through 2023 and pushes out the timeline for repealing the flawed sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula for calculating Medicare physician payments

ACR Financials Reveal Strong Position

Although operating revenue declined in 2013, the value of the total assets of the American College of Radiology (ACR) continues to climb

CBO Cuts Cost of SGR Fix by Nearly $23 Billion

New Federal spending figures have prompted the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to reduce its estimate for the total cost of repealing the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula

Researchers Estimate Overdiagnosis Rate for CT Lung Cancer Screening

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that 18.4% of the lung cancers detected with low-dose CT in the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial may have been indolent

Hologic Replaces CEO and Settles With Ichan

Jack W. Cumming, 68, who had been a part of the top management team of Hologic Inc, Bedford, Mass., for over a decade will be replaced as president and CEO by Stryker veteran Stephen MacMillan.

RSNA Trendwatch: Take a Long View of MU

In a Thursday morning open-mike/town hall session on the federal meaningful use program, Curtis Langlotz, MD, PhD, offered a reality check for those incentive-happy practices that have successfully attested to Stage 1

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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.