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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Zotec Joins GE as a Top Supporter of ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute

The billing and practice management services declined to confirm the exact size of its commitment. However, it is listed on the ACR’s website as a “Partner,” a distinction reserved for companies that contribute a half million or more

Pennsylvania Makes Informing Patients About Breast Density Mandatory

Governor Tom Corbett has signed the Breast Density Notification Act into law, making Pennsylvania the 13th state to require mammogram results sent to patients to include breast density information

National Breast Density Inform Bill Reintroduced

Supporters of the mandatory inclusion of breast density information in patient mammogram result notifications are making another run at getting a national law passed to require this of all imaging providers

Top 100 Private Practices List Reveals Advantage of Size

The value of scale became evident this year as the largest practices also reported the greatest revenue per FTE radiologist, and the revenue number stepped down with each descending practice-size category

Clinical Decision Support Mentioned in Both Versions of SGR Repeal Bill

On Wednesday, October 30, the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees jointly released a draft version of policy to replace the sustainable growth rate formula (SGR), and language regarding the use of appropriateness criteria in ordering of advanced medical imaging was included

Merge Puts Positive Spin On Low Q3 Numbers

After a second quarter that was so bad, Merge’s own CEO, Justin Dearborn, called the results “unacceptable” and apologized to investors, the company’s third quarter results were less dramatic, but still not very inspiring to investors

GE Gets FDA Approval for Its Alzheimer’s Imaging Agent

The FDA has approved the GE Healthcare diagnostic imaging tracer flutemetamol F18 (Vizamyl) for use in evaluating adults for Alzheimer's disease and dementia

CMS Final 2014 Payment Rules Will Be Delayed

Imaging providers anxious to see if CMS will drop the proposed separate cost centers for CT and MRI from the final 2014 HOPPS fee schedule will have to wait a little longer

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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.