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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Quashing patients’ misconceptions about radiology while they’re parked in the waiting room

Some patients have little understanding about the role of the radiologist or how it differs from the technologist, but Belgian providers are educating consumers with a simple intervention.

Radiologists’ share of catheter-directed therapy market falls as surgeons, cardiologists gain inroads

Physicians have also increasingly performed this deep-vein thrombosis treatment on an outpatient basis, a decade's worth of Medicare claims data show. 

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Retired radiologist pushes for change after navigating healthcare as a patient with cancer

Frank Giargiana Jr., MD, was forced to step out of the reading room and face his diagnosis from a new perspective, sharing his journey in Radiology: Imaging Cancer.

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FibroGen ‘deeply disappointed’ after FDA rejects new treatment for CKD-related anemia

The FDA has requested additional data before approving roxadustat.

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Change Healthcare, UnitedHealth ink pact with DOJ pushing back proposed merger’s timeline

The two companies detailed their new “timing agreement” with the Department of Justice in a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

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Radiology records smallest gain in Black faculty among medical specialties over past 30 years

This 0.32 percentage-point change since 1990 placed imaging last among 16 specialties, tied with emergency medicine, experts detailed in JAMA

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Out-of-pocket costs climbing for imaging services after mammography, despite ACA safeguards

Radiologists are concerned this trend could force women to skip crucial follow-up services such as MRI, ultrasound and breast biopsy. 

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For every positive COVID-19 test, radiologists record 1.2 fewer outpatient imaging exams

Northwell Health experts believe their findings offer key clues as practices navigate subsequent stages of the public health crisis.