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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Radiologist urges peers to carefully monitor ‘digital footprint,’ sleep on it before posting

The advice comes after a controversial recent incident on Facebook in which someone shared CT scans of a foreign body lodged in one patient's rectum. 

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$66M to hospitalize 38 patients over 3 weeks—would you take that deal?

Responding swiftly to the COVID crisis this past spring, the city of Chicago imagined, built and began operating a nicely outfitted, high-capacity hospital in just three weeks and five days. That was the impressive part.

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New Jersey imaging provider sues Cigna over $400,000 in denied COVID-related claims

Open MRI Imaging said it submitted several invoices to the payer between February and July, but the insurer refused to pay, issuing “unelaborated denials” or contending that the bills were “duplicative.” 

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Radiology provider Akumin says layoffs, pay cuts helped buoy $13.7M second quarter

The company has seen an uptick in COVID-19 cases in core markets, but third quarter volumes continue to recover from the steep drops seen in the spring. 

Search engines unequally inhospitable to antivaxxers

Privacy-first search engines brought back numerous sites when researchers entered the words vaccine and autism. Google turned up zero. Is that impressive—or glaring?

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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.”