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.

Phoenix Arizona

RadNet-Dignity Health joint venture acquires 7 imaging centers from Cigna company

Arizona Diagnostic Radiology is buying the Phoenix-area outpatient locations from Evernorth Care Group, the medical practice division of Cigna HealthCare of Arizona. 

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Cardiology board fail rates are increasing—can educators reverse that trend?

While 96% of first-time test takers passed the ABIM's subspecialty exam in cardiovascular disease in 2018, that number dropped to 86% in 2021 and 2022.

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Radiologist to collect $4.6M jury verdict in whistleblower case against former practice

Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based Consulting Radiologists Ltd. allegedly terminated senior staffer Brent Bullis, MD, after he raised patient safety concerns. 

HeartFlow’s AI-powered CAD offering receives new CPT code with improved reimbursement rate

For this update to be finalized, the American Medical Association had to determine FFRCT Analysis met certain requirements in terms of its overall impact on patient care. John Farquhar, CEO of HeartFlow, described the news as "a win for everyone involved, most notably patients." 

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Practices should prep for M&A surge, says Grant Thornton

For practices that have lagged on investment, it's time to get forward-thinking about revenue cycles and make those 'go/no go' decisions, according to the advisors.

Radiology departments that serve racial minorities, low-income patients less likely to receive NIH funding

A total of 75 radiology departments received National Institutes of Health funding between 2017-2021, ranging from $195,000 to nearly $217.9 million. 

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Radiology provider to close if it can’t find a buyer by end of March

Saltzer Health has faced "significant financial pressures as the rising cost of providing care, driven by inflation, has increased since the pandemic." 

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Only 21% of healthcare leaders say they’ve implemented AI in medical imaging

However, about 62% of decision-makers at the management and executive level said they plan to do so within the next five years.