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.

Medicare has denied $16M worth of radiology artificial intelligence claims
The federal payment program first started paying for AI in 2018 and has denied about 53% of claims (or 53,857) submitted by radiologists since then, experts detail in JACR.
Members of Congress propose tapping foreign-born physicians to relieve radiology workforce shortages
Lawmakers in both chambers have reintroduced the Healthcare Workforce Resilience Act, touting support from the American Hospital Association and several physician societies.
Medicare opts not to make CT radiation-related quality measure mandatory in 2027
The measure evaluates the proportion of scans that exceed certain thresholds for image noise or radiation dose across 18 categories.
Alphabet-owned Verily accused by whistleblower of misusing data from 25K patients
A former executive at Verily is suing the company, alleging he was fired after reporting the incidents to management. The misuses of data, if true, would constitute HIPAA violations.
Nonprofit health system agrees to $18M settlement over use of ad trackers
Adena Health System was accused in a class-action lawsuit of deploying Meta Pixel tracking tools on its patient portal. As many as 89,000 patients could have had protected health information shared with advertisers.

Giving patients access to their medical imaging could improve health literacy

However, medical image sharing could also produce an influx of questions from patients who have concerns about what they're looking at, authors of a new paper suggest.

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Wearable ECG specialists acquire new testing facility to reach more patients

San Francisco-based WearLinq says the acquisition will help its six-lead ECG technology reach more heart patients throughout the United States.

House committee advances key legislation to strengthen pay for diagnostic imaging agents

The FIND Act is supported by several industry stakeholders including ACR and the Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging.

Private equity-backed urology practice enters interventional radiology with new outpatient center

Central Ohio Urology is working with Prostate Centers USA, a Virginia-based IR group that operates a network of locations across several states.

Radiologists help launch Uber-like service providing imaging consultations across the globe

Experts first designed the program in 2022 to provide subspecialty advice to clinicians in war-torn Ukraine.

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Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

9 notable quotes from 1 big day at an epicenter of AI in healthcare

As AI continues augmenting the expertise of healthcare professionals, look for it to go further and do nothing less than “enhance humanity.”

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HHS launches $50M security initiative to thwart ransomware attacks at hospitals

The UPGRADE platform aims to automate the detection and patching of device-related security vulnerabilities at hospitals nationwide.

Management

Medicare has denied $16M worth of radiology artificial intelligence claims

Members of Congress propose tapping foreign-born physicians to relieve radiology workforce shortages

Medicare opts not to make CT radiation-related quality measure mandatory in 2027

Alphabet-owned Verily accused by whistleblower of misusing data from 25K patients

Nonprofit health system agrees to $18M settlement over use of ad trackers