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.

Surgery society disavows ‘gender affirming’ interventions for young people
A major medical group with a direct stake in the national debate over gender transitions for minors has come out against providing related clinical measures.
FDA clears algorithm that spots and quantifies incidental lung nodules
The platform provides radiologists with a Malignancy Similarity Index score, used to help determine the likelihood that an incidental nodule is malignant.
Photon-counting CT offers numerous benefits in lung cancer imaging
Compared to conventional contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography, photon-counting CT exams can reduce patients' effective radiation dose by more than 66%.
Hospitals don’t have to pit service-line breadth against clinical-specialization focus: Operational analysis
Regardless of hospital size, per-patient-discharge costs are affected by two factors sometimes understood to exist in tension with one another.
Radiologist reprimanded after writing hundreds of problematic prescriptions
The doctor is accused of doling out dozens drugs such as opioids to herself, friends, family and other acquaintances between 2014 and 2024.

10% of patients with a ‘big three’ disease are misdiagnosed

The most commonly missed condition seems to be spinal abscess, an infection that can cause paraplegia yet was fumbled in more than 62% of cases.

Radiologists’ $427K salary places specialty in top 5, though COVID may take a bite

The tally represents a nearly 2% uptick from the $419,000 rads received in the previous salary survey, Medscape reported.

Radiology ranks among top 5 highest paid specialties, averaging $427K per year

The figure is nearly 2% higher compared to last year's report from Medscape, but some experts believe the recent global pandemic may change the trend.

Cardiologists’ average salary rises to $438K, No. 4 among all specialties

This continues a steady rise in pay for the specialty—the same report recorded cardiology’s average salary as $430,000 in 2019, $423,000 in 2018 and $410,000 in 2017.

Radiology Partners establishes employee relief fund that’s already raised nearly $1.8M

“RP One,” as the effort is called, is doling out grants to team members who are “experiencing significant financial hardship because of the COVID crisis.”

CVD mortality rates highlight ‘widening disparity’ between metro, rural counties in US

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) age-adjusted mortality rates (AAMRs) were higher in rural areas than larger metropolitan areas from 1999 to 2017, according to new research published in JAMA.

Most general radiologists are also multispecialists—ensuring access to wide-ranging care

A majority of research has been focused on subspecialists, but generalists are key to facilitating patient access to a number of radiology subspecialities.

Lawmakers want standardized safety regulations before granting providers immunity from coronavirus lawsuits

Politicians from both parties shared such reservations at a recent Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.

Management

Surgery society disavows ‘gender affirming’ interventions for young people

FDA clears algorithm that spots and quantifies incidental lung nodules

Photon-counting CT offers numerous benefits in lung cancer imaging

Hospitals don’t have to pit service-line breadth against clinical-specialization focus: Operational analysis

Radiologist reprimanded after writing hundreds of problematic prescriptions