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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Lawmaker ‘deeply concerned’ over $250M HHS contract for coronavirus-related PR work

Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., worries the agency is using taxpayer funds to fuel the commander-in-chief’s bid for a second term. 

Here comes ‘the most important flu shot of the century’

Want to help the world win the war on COVID? Get a flu shot and encourage everyone within your sphere of influence to do the same.

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5 ways radiology can assume role of ‘value creator,’ rather than resource drain

The specialty must emphasize its myriad contributions to the care team to avoid this mischaracterization, experts wrote in JAMA. 

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Stanford scientists slam former colleague, radiologist and White House advisor over pandemic views

The dozens of faculty members include physicians, researchers, epidemiologists and health policy experts, who voiced their concerns in a letter shared. 

New CPT code to help radiology practices report additional costs stemming from COVID care

Approved for immediate use beginning Sept. 8, code 99072 covers any additional supplies, materials or clinical staff time used during the pandemic. 

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Society of Interventional Radiology publishes new IVC filter guidelines

SIR said that this is its first official clinical practice guidelines, developed using best practice methodologies from the National Academy of Medicine.

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Radiology Partners to acquire Mednax Radiology Solutions for $885M

When the transaction is complete, Rad Partners will add 800 additional physicians to its already sizable total of 1,600, the companies announced. 

Alleged Stark violations, kickbacks to cost hospital $50M

A 223-bed acute care institution with a medical staff of nearly 300 physicians has agreed to pay $50 million over allegations it deliberately submitted ineligible claims to Medicare and profited handsomely by these actions.