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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Radiologists must help spot abuse as domestic violence injuries rise during the pandemic

Specialists should key in on high imaging utilization, location and imaging patterns specific to intimate partner violence, trauma experts explained in Radiology.

Trump taps board-certified radiologist as new COVID-19 advisor

Scott Atlas, MD, is a senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and is serving as an advisor to the president on pandemic-related matters.

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American College of Radiology urges physicians to ‘mask up,’ fight COVID-19 misinformation

ACR joins the American Medical Association, which first launched the campaign last week as a means to “normalize” face coverings and “debunk myths.” 

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Emergency in the national ER: Only 8% of department-dedicated docs working rural

U.S. residency programs in emergency medicine have no trouble attracting, training and preparing the next generation of outstanding ER physicians. The problem is that a paltry percentage take their clinical skills where the need is greatest. 

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Mobile imaging provider must pay up after overcharging Medicare for transportation, DOJ says

Physician’s Mobile X-Ray has agreed to pony up nearly $50,000 for violating the False Claims Act over a five-year period. 

Intelerad’s executive announcement, new radiologic technologist trustees, and more radiology workforce moves

Plus, Brigham and Women’s Physician Organization's new president and the Center for Diagnostic Imaging restructures its leadership team.

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CMS pushes imaging appropriate use criteria go-live date back a year due to pandemic

The federal agency first kicked off the educational testing period for the AUC program on Jan. 1, with full implementation slated for the same date in 2021. 

Radiologists aren’t exercising regularly, with nearly 90% suffering shoulder, neck pain at work

The researchers said incorporating regular workouts at home and in the office are important to combatting the profession's often sedentary work life.