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.

Man wins $10M jury verdict after ED physicians order wrong imaging exam
The incident left John Douglas Cox, a mechanic in Washington’s Clark County, partially paralyzed after physicians failed to promptly diagnose and treat a spinal infection.
Healthcare educators: Want to stabilize nurse staffing for years to come? Stand up for the Nurse Faculty Loan Program
Federal policy is bandaging localized nursing shortages while ignoring the patient’s serious internal illness.
FTC homes in on healthcare
The federal regulatory agency that exists to protect consumers and promote competition across the economy is newly focused on patients and clinicians as well as taxpayers.
'Meaningful' FDA clearance opens new osteoarthritis treatment pathway
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently cleared a group of radiotherapy systems for use beyond cancer treatment.
Match Day 2026: Radiology programs offer more positions than ever, but applicant pool declines
This year, imaging training programs offered a total of 1,478 positions across diagnostic and interventional radiology, a 5% increase over last year.

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Advice on optimizing an independent private radiology practice and keeping out corporate infiltrators

Kansas radiologist Kamran Ali, MD, and colleagues shared five take-home points for imaging providers seeking to retain their autonomy in the face of consolidation.

The high price of consolidation: Spike in imaging volumes pushing Medicare costs up $40M

The findings shared Monday in Health Affairs add to mounting evidence linking vertical integration to higher spending, a trend that's likely to increase in the coming years.

Radiation delivered via low-dose CT may improve quality of life for patients with severe Alzheimer’s

LDCT produced “remarkable” improvements in both behavior and cognition just days after treatment, according to a small study published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease.

3 steps to eliminate unconscious bias in radiology recruitment and hiring

Radiology researchers recommend using a holistic approach to hiring and deploying structured interviewing, they wrote recently.

Odds of inappropriate MRI referral jump 20% after physicians transition to hospital-backed employment

Additionally, after a provider moved away from an independently owned practice, patients' probability of an MRI referral overall jumped by 31%.

Developing a novel quality measure to address poor patient positioning in mammography

Patient body mass index, in particular, can contribute to poorer patient positioning, experts reported in the European Journal of Radiology.

Low-value care, including CVD screening for low-risk adults, costs Medicare providers $478M per year

The study’s authors tracked data from 2007 to 2016, focusing on seven low-value services that all received a “D” recommendation from the USPSTF.

Nanox hires new exec; Butterfly Network selects senior leader, and more radiology leadership news

Also, Canon fills out its management team and imaging societies hand out high honors.

Management

Man wins $10M jury verdict after ED physicians order wrong imaging exam

Healthcare educators: Want to stabilize nurse staffing for years to come? Stand up for the Nurse Faculty Loan Program

FTC homes in on healthcare

'Meaningful' FDA clearance opens new osteoarthritis treatment pathway

Match Day 2026: Radiology programs offer more positions than ever, but applicant pool declines