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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Reimbursement Realities

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. | S105AB | Experts discuss regulatory and legislative issues affecting radiology practices in 2013, including changes related to Meaningful Use Stage 2 and potential impacts of ICD-10 on radiology.

The Future of Radiology: What Are the Threats and How to Respond to Them

Wednesday, Nov. 28, 8:30 -10:00 a.m. | N227 | There are a number of threats facing radiology, both at the individual practice level and beyond. This session preps participants on how to deal with these challenges, including declining reimbursements, reduced procedure volumes and others.

Mock Jury Trial

Sunday, Nov. 25, 10:00-3:30 p.m. | S406A | Can a jury of 12 laypeople be convinced a radiologist is negligent for not alerting a referring physician and/or patient that radiation exposure from CT imaging may cause breast cancer? See how attorneys present their cases and how a jury interprets the standard of care.

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Healthcare’s bottom line

Health expenditures in the U.S. were about $2.6 trillion in 2010, a ten-fold increase from 1980 levels. Something must be done about healthcare spending, but the question is what?

F is for fail: U.S. fails to curb excessive testing

As policymakers and providers struggle to contain healthcare costs and provide capacity, researchers reported Medicare beneficiaries often undergo repeat echocardiography and stress tests as well as chest CT exams, according to a study published online Nov. 19 in Archives of Internal Medicine. The U.S. has failed to curb excessive testing, according to an accompanying editorial.

North American imaging market to swell past $9B by 2018, led by MRI

Overall revenues in the North American diagnostic imaging equipment market will surpass $9 billion by the year 2018, according to market research and consulting firm GlobalData.

N.H. jury awards $5M in stroke misdiagnosis suit

A Rockingham County, N.H., jury has returned a $5 million verdict against a former radiologist from Advanced Diagnostic Imaging in Exeter, N.H., according to a Portsmouth Herald report.

Aligning Incentives Between the Physician Practice and the Hospital: Finding the Win:Win

Nov. 30, 8:30-10:00 a.m. | S504AB | This session will help participants understand how healthcare delivery can be optimized at an acceptable cost by aligning department and hospital missions. It also considers approaches to help the next generation of radiologists decrease overutilization, enhance safety and decrease cost.

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Radiology Business
The biggest obstacles facing radiology business managers in 2025

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.

Cardiovascular Business
New cardiac prevention paradigm explored in TRANSFORM trial using AI and CCTA

Deepak Bhatt, MD, director of the Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital and principal investigator of the TRANSFORM trial, explains an emerging technique for cardiac screening: combining coronary CT angiography with artificial intelligence for plaque analysis to create an approach similar to mammography.

Cardiovascular Business
Cardiology practices pay $17.7M to settle fraud allegations brought on by whistleblowers

A total of 16 cardiology practices from 12 states settled with the DOJ to resolve allegations they overbilled Medicare for imaging agents used to diagnose cardiovascular disease.