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.

ACR Seeks to Raise $5 Million for Leadership Institute

The ACR knows that keeping radiology central to the delivery of high quality health care will not happen without strong leadership, and it wants to put some serious money behind its effort to grow the next generation of radiology leaders

ARRT Names Two New Board Trustees

The American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) has appointed Lisa Bartenhagen, M.S., R.T., and Barbara J. Smith, M.S., R.T., FASRT, FAEIRS, to four-year terms on its Board of Trustees, beginning August 1, 2013

KLAS Reports Look at Supporting Tests for Mammography

With growing patient and referral source interest in breast cancer screening options beyond traditional mammography, the women’s imaging field is heating up says research firm KLAS.

Maryland Becomes 7th State With a Breast Density Notification Law

Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley has signed SB 334, the “Mammograms – Dense Breast Tissue – Notification” into law making his state the seventh state requiring mammography providers to give patients information about breast density

Imaging Entrepreneur Sees Opportunity in Workers-Compensation Market

Ten years after selling AnciCare, a network of 1,200 imaging centers in 40 states, Michael Cabrera is again putting up his own money for a new venture. According to a feature in the Miami Herald, the Florida-based entrepreneur will this time focus on the Sunshine State’s workers-compensation market.

Two Studies Find Cause for Optimism in Health Care Cost Growth

Whether the slowdown in health care spending is just a silver lining to the overall slowdown in the economy or if it is due to structural changes in how health care is delivered is no small matter

ACR Honors Senator Vitter for Support of Radiology

Senator David Vitter (R-La.) received the American College of Radiology's Congressional Award for Radiological Excellence (CARE Award) for his championship of radiology issues in the Senate

Bills to Repeal MPPR Pick Up 15 New Sponsors

Twelve Representatives and three Senators added their names to legislation to remove the multiple procedure payment reduction (MPPR) on the professional component of imaging