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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Nursing homes using hospitals as middlemen to bounce low-reimbursement, high-maintenance residents

A common tactic is sending off Medicaid-covered seniors with dementia following emergency “psychotic” episodes. When psychiatric wards and hospitals quickly discharge the patients, the nursing homes refuse to take them back in.

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Rand study suggests hospitals are exorbitantly overpaid by private insurers; AHA reacts

In real dollars, these payers’ combined savings would have nearly reached $20 billion just in 2018, the analysis shows.

Radiologist and White House advisor Scott Atlas threatens retaliation against critical former Stanford colleagues

Nearly 100 doctors, scientists and health policy experts at the California institution recently took Atlas to task for his approach to the pandemic. 

Nanox

Nanox hit with class action lawsuit amid criticism labeling imaging startup as ‘Theranos 2.0’

The Israel-based company condemned the charges, calling them "completely without merit," following "unusual" trading of its stock on the Nasdaq. 

‘The best radiology in the world’: How Radiology Alliance and the University of Rochester scored a triple win on incidental findings

Sponsored by Nuance

Providers harness Nuance technology to create backstop for imaging cases that may slip through the cracks

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Alliance Healthcare Services acquiring four PET/CT centers from Molecular Imaging Technologies

The Irvine, California-based company bills itself as the "leading" provider of PET/CT in the U.S., employing the most technologists and systems in this space. 

When to expect a COVID vaccine: 5 views

During his ABC News town hall Tuesday night, President Donald Trump suggested a COVID vaccine may be FDA-approved by early to mid-October. “[W]e’re within weeks of getting it,” he said. “Could be three weeks, four weeks.”