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.

Radiologists show higher discrepancy rates when reading advanced exams aligned with their subspecialty

Researchers said the results were “unexpected,” but noted their overall findings still support multispecialty practice.

RSNA names board members; Sectra chief’s new role and more radiology leadership news

Plus, Hyperfine appoints a new CCO and UCSF welcomes its recently hired chief of interventional radiology.

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CMS finalizes 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule—payments to cardiologists take a hit

Also, penalties for failing to comply with the Appropriate Use Criteria program have been delayed yet again. 

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Final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule offers positives, but still ‘disappointing’ cuts to radiologist pay

CMS is advancing a controversial clinical labor wage update but phasing it in over 4 years to minimize impact. 

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CMS raising rate for outpatient lung cancer screening by more than 37% in final rule

The update is part of a slew of changes in the Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System final rule. 

50-something physicians sue former employer for ‘unconscionable’ act of bias

Last February a teaching hospital in the Northeast sacked three pediatric emergency doctors, all in their mid-50s. A handful filed suit, alleging the institution and its parent organization acted primarily out of age discrimination.

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Mammography screening rates low among transgender and nonbinary patients. 2 possible fixes

Gendering of anatomy is one screening barrier, with terms such as "breasts" often discomforting for certain patients, experts wrote recently. 

American Board of Radiology says pandemic may be dragging down some exam scores

Candidates just completed the second round of remote interventional and diagnostic radiology oral examinations, with ABR recently revealing the results.