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.

Fraud, bias, iffy authorship ‘non-negligible practices’ in nuke med research

Nuclear radiologists are overall confident in the scientific soundness of studies published within their field. Those working in Asia are especially trusting. However ... 

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District Court ruling in Texas calls ACA preventive care requirement ‘unconstitutional’

The federally-appointed judge expressed concerns that volunteer experts on the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force have the power to make binding recommendations.

Imaging fraud lands surgeon in jail

An orthopedic surgeon in California will spend seven years in prison for needlessly X-raying 10 patients hundreds of times over a four-year stretch.

The rise and fall of race-based radiation dosing: 4 lessons

Thanks to public outcry and legislative action in 1968, Black patients have not routinely received higher-dose X-rays than their fair-skinned peers for more than half a century.

FDA warns of a new malfunction risk with Abbott’s MitraClip devices

When these malfunctions occur, the FDA explained, it leads to an increased risk of additional interventions.

Monkeypox update: FDA focuses on testing as cases continue to rise

The new guidance offers a validation template that can assist test developers in submitting an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) request. 

RBMA presses CMS to amend 2023 physician fee schedule

Warning that proposed new cuts in Medicare reimbursement could afflict U.S. healthcare with “severe and permanent damage,” the Radiology Business Management Association has presented CMS with detailed recommendations for stopping such a dire scenario from arising.

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Outsourcing reporting during out-of-hours shifts benefits staff, but is it sustainable?

Requests for urgent CT reads during the evening, overnight and on the weekends have increased more than 10-fold, causing a negative ripple effect throughout the radiology workforce, especially among trainees.