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.

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission votes down controversial Authorized User Criteria changes

The proposed plan would have relaxed requirements for handling and administering unsealed radiopharmaceutical materials, which could present safety concerns, the ACR cautioned.

Recovered COVID-19 patients face higher risk of heart rate abnormalities, type 2 diabetes

The new analysis, published in JAMA Network Open, included U.S. patients from a variety of age groups. 

UnitedHealthcare subpoenaed over data breach impacting 22,000 people

The Rhode Island Attorney General's office said "one or more" entities may have diverted from standard information safeguards.

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Radiologists' on-call workloads have more than doubled relative to ED visits

Between 2012 and 2019, on-call work, measured in RVUs, increased by 52% compared to a 23% increase in ED visits, experts recently reported in the European Journal of Radiology.

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Medicare patients will have access to free at-home COVID tests starting this spring

Under the Biden administration's new mandate, Medicare and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries will be eligible for eight free tests each month.

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Bipartisan bill would provide relief for small practices navigating Merit-based Incentive Payment System

The Small Practice, Underserved, and Rural Support Program Extension Act of 2022 has drawn support from the AMA and several other physician groups.

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Trio of private radiology practices across three states announce merger deal

Leaders believe the newly formed Advanced Imaging Alliance will allow them to better serve one of the nation’s largest Catholic hospital systems. 

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Cardinal Health will pay $13M to settle kickback allegations

The Ohio-based drug distributor violated the Anti-Kickback Statute by offering to pay physician practices upfront discounts to buy pharmaceuticals paid for by federal health programs, according to the DOJ.