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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Radiology can serve as a ‘force’ to steer conversation on world’s fastest growing social media app

Around since 2017, TikTok has skyrocketed in popularity, with more than 500M active users and 1B downloads. Yet, few in the imaging community actually use it. 

Surprise medical bills cost younger adults more

Millennials are feeling the pain of surprise medical bills more acutely than the generations that preceded them.

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Radiologist trainees prevail in 69% of rare malpractice cases brought against them

Radiology litigation most frequently involved alleged misdiagnoses or procedural complications, Emory University experts wrote in JACR. 

Measles coiled to do children far more harm than COVID-19

Unless the world takes action now, millions of children will contract measles next year. Hundreds of thousands could die, and much of the suffering will have been preventable.

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41% of radiologists separated from at least one practice recently, underscoring specialty’s growing mobility

Imaging experts are concerned this trend could potentially stifle innovation and entrepreneurship among the physician workforce. 

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UnitedHealthcare’s revised CT payment policy ‘threatens’ the patient-physician relationship, advocates warn

The nation’s largest commercial insurer—covering some 70 million Americans—first implemented its imaging reimbursement update in the spring, drawing concern from the field. 

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CMS’ move to reimburse doctors for imaging algorithm use is encouraging. But is it enough?

Some are calling on the agency to boost proposed payments for a tool that diagnoses diabetic retinopathy in order to encourage widespread adoption.

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‘Lockdowns kill people’: Radiologist and White House COVID advisor Scott Atlas blasts colleagues

The neuroradiologist and fellow of Stanford’s Hoover Institution labeled fellow coronavirus counselor Anthony Fauci a "political animal" in a recent interview.