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.

CDC vaccine committee issues new guidance for COVID-19 shots
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommended that all Americans six months and older consult a clinician before deciding to get a COVID vaccine, ending the pandemic-era policy that broadly encouraged getting the inoculation.
Hundreds of radiation therapy systems subject to FDA recall
A Class 2 recall has been issued for the systems due to a software glitch that could impact treatment accuracy.
Healthcare AI today: Inflationary AI, China’s AI vs. ours, Joint Commission AI guidance, more
Picture yourself interacting with an AI model that can tell you when you might develop any of 1,000 disease conditions over the coming 10+ years. OK, now see yourself finding out such a model is already here.
Radiology advocates say ‘excessive’ cut to Medicare practice-expense pay could imperil independent docs
CMS is trying to even out pay gaps between hospital and office-based physicians, but rad groups said the move lacks supporting data and could adversely impact interventinoal specialists.
Radiologists 2nd among specialties with highest on-call pay
Members of the specialty collect an average of about $1,845 in per-day call pay, behind only neurosurgeons ($2,045) and ahead of pathologists ($1,700).

Bullet pierces mobile mammography unit during imaging exam, halting screening event

The incident occurred on Chicago’s South Side, with the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority and Assured Imaging hosting a popup 3D mammogram clinic at a local shopping center

CMS Stark Law advisory grants radiology practices more flexibility in structuring their organizations

Provider groups can potentially use subsidiaries for different markets or different payer arrangements based on the new guidance, experts advised.

As ‘right to repair’ debate continues, hospitals go after surgical robot company

The 'right to repair' debate is one that could impact heart teams and device manufacturers for years to come. Some hospitals have had a head start, accusing one company of unfair repair policies that put patients at risk.

Radiologists and other docs label 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule a ‘mixed bag’

Advocates are pleased with plans to delay the punitive phase of the appropriate-use criteria program, but concerned about cuts to the conversion factor.

Young radiologists must step up to climate change: 7 things to know

Trainees will need to harness the same energy used during the pandemic to take on the "next challenge to world health," two experts argued in Radiology.

Rad Partners AI ally raises $66M, Rayus’ latest M&A move, plus more company news

Also, two practices announce a merger in the Northeast as the acquirer strives to become the "Amazon of radiology."

Just 21% of academic cardiologists are women—and they earn less than men

Gender gaps in both representation and salary are especially wide in academic cardiology, researchers found.

Alliance Healthcare Services plans to ‘vigorously defend’ against ‘unfounded’ PACS-breach lawsuit

Patients recently filed a proposed class-action suit against Alliance and Northeast Radiology, claiming the 2 were lax in responding to a cybersecurity incident last year.

Management

CDC vaccine committee issues new guidance for COVID-19 shots

Hundreds of radiation therapy systems subject to FDA recall

Healthcare AI today: Inflationary AI, China’s AI vs. ours, Joint Commission AI guidance, more

Radiology advocates say ‘excessive’ cut to Medicare practice-expense pay could imperil independent docs

Radiologists 2nd among specialties with highest on-call pay