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.

Appointment no-shows could cost an average radiology practice $1M a year

Radiology loses more uncaptured revenue per patient visit than primary care or other practices due to patient no-shows, according to new research published in Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology.

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WellCare finalizes $2.5B acquisition of Meridian

WellCare Health Plans, a Tampa-based managed care provider, has closed its acquisition of Meridian Health Plans of Michigan, Meridian Health Plans of Illinois and MeridianRx in a deal worth about $2.5 billion.

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Back to school: What radiologists can learn from bipedal evolution

The ability to walk upright on two feet required millions of years of evolution, and even today humans are not perfectly adapted to bipedalism, argued authors in a recent Academic Radiology perspective.

CDC releases new guidelines for children with mTBI

The CDC released new guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) in children on Tuesday, Sept. 4, in JAMA Pediatrics.

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Electronic device used to detect, treat epileptic seizures in mice

Researchers are hoping an electronic device used to detect, stop and prevent epileptic seizures in mice can be used to treat other neurological disorders, according to a study published in Science Advances.

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Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital expands interventional radiology suite

The Bonnie Uytengsu and Family Surgery and Intervention Center surgical center, the newest expansion at the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, California, includes six interventional treatment rooms for radiology laboratories and other service lines.

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Why perception makes or breaks radiology education programs, clinical practices

In a Sept. 3 editorial in Academic Radiology, Richard Gunderman, MD, PhD, and Parth Patel, from the Indiana University School of Medicine, discussed how radiologists may find more joy in their work and improve their clinical performance if they develop a deeper understanding of perception.

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Cigna-Express Scripts deal has already cost $201M

The $67 billion mega-merger between Cigna and Express Scripts has already cost a staggering $201 million, Axios reported, according to an estimate from Cigna relating to transaction costs incurred in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).