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.

Imaging manufacturer Guerbet faces financial challenges following recent FDA warning
Regulators recently scolded the France-based pharmaceutical firm for safety issues that occurred at its plant in Raleigh, North Carolina, which produces imaging contrast agents.
Wisconsin passes legislation requiring insurers to cover supplemental breast imaging
Dubbed "Gail's Law" after a breast cancer care advocate, the passage follows years of advocacy from radiologists and patients.
Fraudster faces 3 years in prison for role in $14M imaging-related scheme
Sophia Shaklian, 38, of Los Angeles, and accomplices bilked Medicare of millions by submitting false claims for diagnostic imaging and hospice care that was unnecessary or never administered.
FDA clears portable photon-counting CT scanner
The system is designed for point-of-care settings such as outpatient offices, sports medicine practices and urgent care clinics.
Both radiologists and AI struggle to identify 'deepfake' X-rays
Experts are cautioning that these falsified images could have serious implications for radiologists in the future.

Assimilating a general radiology practice into a highly specialized academic imaging department

Communication, transparency and data were all key components of the effort, experts detailed in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

Radiologists, other docs praise split Senate’s confirmation of Xavier Becerra as new HHS chief

Lawmakers voted 50-49 to move the California attorney general’s nomination forward, with Becerra now becoming the first Latino leader of the massive federal department.

Medicare must update lung cancer screening coverage to ensure access, ACR and others charge

Advocates called on CMS to open a National Coverage Determination reconsideration on the topic, according to a recent letter addressed to leaders atop the federal agency.

Breast cancer AI cleared for EU markets

The European Union has granted CE mark approval to a U.S.-based maker of AI software that aids radiologists in distinguishing between benign and malignant lesions on breast ultrasound images.

Humana changes health services business name to CenterWell

Health insurance giant Humana has rebranded its payer-agnostic healthcare services business, including its Partners in Primary Care and Family Physicians Group, to CenterWell.

Strategic Radiology adds 30th member to growing coalition of independent practices

Founded in 1984, Delaney Radiology currently employs 28 fellowship-trained physicians, operating in the Wilmington, North Carolina, metropolitan area.

Healthcare mourns unexpected death of 36-year-old Minnesota radiologist

Gretchen Butler, MD, a breast imaging specialist and mother of three, died March 5 by suicide, according to published reports.

Targeting a new quality challenge in radiology: CT repeat rates within the same examination

University of Wisconsin–Madison physicists recently investigated this topic, analyzing repeat rates across nearly 104,000 exams performed at several institutions.

Management

Imaging manufacturer Guerbet faces financial challenges following recent FDA warning

Wisconsin passes legislation requiring insurers to cover supplemental breast imaging

Fraudster faces 3 years in prison for role in $14M imaging-related scheme

FDA clears portable photon-counting CT scanner

Both radiologists and AI struggle to identify 'deepfake' X-rays