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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GE imaging equipment now included in Attainia catalog

Medical imaging equipment from GE Healthcare is now available in the catalog from Attainia, a capital equipment planning and budgeting company.

Operator of NY rad group charged in $30M Medicare fraud case

Ting Huan Tai, 34, the operator of United Medical Diagnosis in Flushing, N.Y., has been charged with healthcare fraud in connection with more than $30 million in false Medicare and Medicaid billings.

Is healthcare in denial about pay-for-performance?

Healthcare stakeholders offer contradictory notions of the direction of their business. Most believe current business models are sustainable even though economic and legislative trends point in a different direction, according to a recent KPMG survey.

AIM: A little education goes a long way toward cost-conscious radiology care

An educational intervention conducted for inpatient services at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center had a significant impact on both the number of diagnostic imaging tests ordered and the level of staff cost-consciousness, according to a research letter published online Aug. 27 in Archives of Internal Medicine.

JACR: Ironclad contracts protect from teleradiology pitfalls

Teleradiology contracts that are well-written and take into account all legal, regulatory and compliance issues can mitigate many of the risks involved in working with a teleradiology group, according to an article published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

HHS officially delays ICD-10 to 2014

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has launched a final to make definitive a one-year proposed delayfrom Oct. 1, 2013, to Oct. 1, 2014in the compliance date for use of new codes that classify diseases and health problems. The final rule also establishes a unique health plan identifier.

Ga. provider seeks gag order in mammo fraud suit

An attorney for a central Georgia healthcare provider at the center of 21 lawsuits alleging a radiologic technologist entered incorrect mammogram results has asked for a gag order on public comments from plaintiffs in the case.

Siemens inks first U.S. install of Somatom Perspective CT

Siemens Healthcare has reported its first U.S. installation of the 128-slice Somatom Perspective CT scanner to Northside Hospital-Atlanta, a 537-bed acute-care facility in Atlanta, in one of its outpatient imaging centers located adjacent to the hospital.

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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.