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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Proposed 2014 Federal Budget Sparks Preauthorization Threat

The ACR will “aggressively fight any approach” that does not incorporate decision support and appropriateness criteria, vows ACR official in her reaction to the budget.

Study Casts Doubt on Argument for MPPR on Rads Reads

When CMS expanded the MPPR methodology to include the professional component of imaging, the argument was that it was a fair and valid to discount subsequent reads after the first read by 25 percent because there are efficiencies in reading multiple scans. A new JACR study finds this is not so.

AHRA Endorses Are You Dense Advocacy

The Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) announced during its annual meeting in Los Angeles that it endorses Are You Dense Advocacy Inc , the patient advocacy group that has pushed for breast density notification laws at the state and national level

Obama Budget Cuts $400 Billion in Health Care Spending

The budget includes money for a fix to the flawed SGR formula for calculating physician payments and recommends closing of the in-office ancillary services exception (IOASE) to the Stark self-referral law.

FDA Approves First Android Medical Image Viewer

Canada’s Calgary Scientific Inc has received FDA clearance to market their ResolutionMD™ software to diagnose medical images on Android devices

Viztek Adds Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Viewing

Viztek says it is now the first PACS vendor to provide viewing capabilities for digital breast tomosynthesis imaging and eliminate the need for a stand-alone viewing system

Tax Foundation Calls Medical Device Tax Bad Policy

The cost of the 2.3% excise tax on the manufacturers of medical devices will come out of money spent on research and development, and the pockets of patients, predicts the nonpartisan research organization

WSJ Highlights Progress and Challenges in Dose Reduction

The Wall Street Journal put a spotlight on radiologists’ and manufacturers’ efforts to minimize radiation from CT scanning

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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.