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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ACR Increases Lobbying Against Further Medicare Cuts to Imaging

The ACR has increased efforts to protect imaging from further Medicare cuts with a letter to Congress and the grassroots "Stand Up For Radiology" program

Jubilant HollisterStier Approved for Manufacture of Lantheus' DEFINITY Vial

Lantheus receives FDA approval for Jubilant HollisterStier to become a new manufacturing site for DEFINITY Vial, an ultrasound contrast agent

Planmed's Verity Extremity Scanner Gets FDA OK

Planmed’s Verity Extremity scanner has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA

The Bigger Picture Behind the Imaging MPPR

MMP

The fiscal-cliff negotiations have come and gone without the hoped-for repeal of the 2013 Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR) for imaging. An enhancement of the MPPR contained in the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), the 2013 version extends the payment reduction to many second imaging procedures performed—by the same individual

Three Key Considerations for Streamlining Imaging-center Acquisitions

VMG

Additional reimbursement cuts are on the horizon, so 2013 is expected to present ample acquisition opportunity for buyers hoping to purchase pressured imaging centers. In planning to acquire an imaging center, there are three key items that should be addressed early in the process to help streamline a potential acquisition. If not adequately

Economies of Scale Between Competitors: Northwest ImageShare

Sponsored by Sectra

Four Washington health-care providers were facing a problem. Harrison Medical Center (Bremerton), Advanced Medical Imaging (Silverdale), The Doctors Clinic (Silverdale), and Olympic Radiology (Bremerton)—all separate, multisite organizations located on the Kitsap Peninsula, west of Seattle—knew that having competitors was creating problems for

Four Factors Shaping Imaging’s Future

Sponsored by Hitachi Healthcare Americas

Every year since 2001, the ACR® Forum has gathered experts from within and outside radiology to discuss issues facing the specialty. The theme for the 12th Annual ACR Forum, held in June 2012 in Reston, Virginia, was Radiology in 2022, and participants (including the publisher of ImagingBiz) were asked to look ahead to anticipate the challenges

Revolution of Thought

A beloved professor of mine once told me that the value of a liberal-arts education was not in learning what to think, but in learning how to think. I have remembered this maxim often in the years since I finished being formally educated; I’m not sure anyone is ever done learning how to think, no matter how many years of schooling he or she has had

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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.