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.

Provider Scores Win in Information Exchange

An unnamed provider has scored a win for all health-care providers in the struggle with payors for patient insurance-coverage transparency, according to an article in Modern Healthcare.

Zotec Lands Billing Business for SimonMed Imaging Chain

Hoping to lower the cost of billing, the Scottsdale, Ariz.-based SimonMed Imaging Inc. chain of centers is outsourcing billing operations to Zotec Parners of Indianapolis

University Radiology Joins Strategic Radiology Network

Large and prestigious with four decades of experience, academic credentials and advanced health information technology, New Jersey’s University Radiology fills in more than just a geographic hole for in Strategic Radiology’s growing network of radiology practices

Radiology Imaging Consultants Sued by Its Shareholders

Five physician shareholders at Radiology Imaging Consultants S.C. of the Chicago suburb Harvey, Ill., have filed suit against their practice alleging that they are being squeezed out of the business to increase the proceeds the remaining shareholders would earn if the practice was sold.

eRAD Integrates Mammography Image Enhancement Tool

eRAD, Inc., has formed an agreement with Advanced Image Enhancement, Inc. (AIE) to integrate the AIE image enhancement toolkit for mammography as an advanced image processing option to the eRAD PACS viewer

Daschle Endorses CDS and Appropriateness Criteria

Speaking to attendees of the ACR’s second annual Radiology Leadership Institute event, former Senate Majority and Minority Leader Tom Daschle said he thought use of the ACR’s imaging utilization management system — which combines clinical decision support (CDS) with ACR appropriateness criteria — should be mandated by law

Radiologist Indicted in $7 Million Fraud and Bribery Case Found in Contempt of Court

The behavior of Kansas radiologist Heidi Lynn Webster, MD, at her arraignment on charges that she and her business partners engaged in fraud and bribery was disruptive enough to earn her 30 days in jail

MPPR, CDS Get Attention in New Bill to Repeal SGR

The committee voted unanimously in favor of HR 2810, which includes language on the economic justifiability of the MPPR