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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Imaging advocates issue ‘call to action’ over UnitedHealthcare payment policy

The nation's largest insurer has allegedly advocated for one CT exam over another, and physicians are urging it to put patients first, rather than any specific test. 

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RadNet leases massive space in mall revitalization project as part of hospital joint venture

Together, the Los Angeles-based imaging operator and Dignity Health plan to offer a full range of radiology services in the 24,000 square-foot center.

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Radiologists must ensure these 6 things don’t push them ‘back into relative invisibility’

The field has made great strides to bring imaging to the center of patient care, but providers can't rest on their laurels, one radiologist argued recently.

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ACR worries value-based initiatives are ignoring radiologists’ care coordination skills

A federal contractor is working to gather input on the possible development of new measures under the Merit-based Incentive Payment System. 

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Radiologic technologist survives COVID-19, returns home after one month in a coma

Shirletta Sanders said her situation was “terrifying,” but her past work helping others survive the pandemic pushed her through the ordeal.

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US Radiology Specialists faces upside and execution risk in debt-fueled expansion plans: Moody’s

USRS benefits from market concentration and business diversity, but also high leverage and modest scale,  the investor service noted. 

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Prominent imaging groups push for first radiology-specific artificial intelligence CPT code

The Category 3 code proposal would cover AI analysis for the detection of vertebral fractures and could take effect as soon as Jan. 1, 2022. 

Hyperfine secures $90M to ‘aggressively’ advance commercial expansion, fast-track AI developments

A number of investors pitched in during this series D financing round, including GV (formerly Google Ventures), Nextrans and Axiom Associates, the Guilford, Connecticut, startup said recently.