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.

Fraud expert charged over 167 suspected incidents of healthcare fraud
Faranak Firozan, 47, is a cybersecurity expert at Nvidia who regularly spoke on the topic of “cyber laundering.” Prosecutors in California allege she submitted fraudulent medical claims to an employer-sponsored insurance plan, bilking Cigna out of $100,000.
Fugitive doctor sentenced in absentia for $1.5M Medicare fraud scheme
Sixty-one-year-old Lilit Gagikovna Baltaian, MD, is on the run after being convicted of fraudulently billing Medicare alongside co-conspirators at home health agencies. A federal court in California sentenced her to 54 months in prison.
FDA issues recall of Philips interventional imaging system due to safety risks
A communication error within the system can reportedly cause loss of imaging functionality mid-procedure.
Respected radiologist and his family among hundreds dead in Air India plane crash
Dr. Prateek Joshi, with the NHS hospital in Derby, England, was taking his wife, also a highly regarded physician, and three young children from India to the U.K. to start a new chapter.
Q&A: Cardiologist and EARLY TAVR co-author questions study’s execution
The EARLY TAVR clinical trial made a significant impact, paving the way for the FDA to approve multiple transcatheter heart valves for the treatment of asymptomatic patients. However, one cardiologist who participated in the trial has some serious concerns with how its findings were presented to the public.

Kyruus Adds Seasoned Healthcare Technology Leader, Stephen Kahane, M.D., M.S., to Its Board of Directors

Senior Executive to Leverage His Experience at athenahealth, VitalWorks, and AMICAS to Advise the Patient Access Leader on its Growth Strategy and Commercial Execution

ACR updates Appropriateness Criteria for diagnostic imaging, interventional radiology

The American College of Radiology (ACR) released an update to the ACR Appropriateness Criteria on Monday, Oct. 1. The update includes 179 diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology topics with 898 clinical variants covering more than 1,560 clinical scenarios.

MA provider shells out $270M for False Claims Act settlement

Medicare Advantage (MA) provider HealthCare Partners Holdings has agreed to pay $270 million to resolve its False Claims Act liability after providing inaccurate information that caused MA plans to receive inflated Medicare payments, the Department of Justice announced this week.

Synthetic mammography plus DBT detects microcalcifications at rates similar to FFDM

Synthetic mammography (SM) plus digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) and full-field digital mammography (FFDM) have a comparable sensitivity and specificity for the detection of microcalcifications, according to new research published in Radiology.

Jane Kilkenny named new VP of US MR business division at Siemens Healthineers

Siemens Healthineers announced this week that Jane Kilkenny will be the company’s new vice president of U.S. magnetic resonance (MR) business management.

Want to improve your case report's overall quality? Find a radiologist

Involving a radiologist as a co-author in a case report containing radiological images improves its overall quality, according to research published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Baylor Scott & White, Memorial Hermann announce merger plans

Baylor Scott & White Health and Memorial Hermann Health System announced plans to merge their systems on Monday, Oct. 1.

Fortune releases 1st annual Best Workplaces in Aging Services ranking

Fortune, alongside research partner Great Place to Work, has released its first annual Best Workplaces in Aging Services list, a ranking that analyzed more than 162,000 employees across the outpatient and at-home sectors of senior care.

Management

Fraud expert charged over 167 suspected incidents of healthcare fraud

Fugitive doctor sentenced in absentia for $1.5M Medicare fraud scheme

FDA issues recall of Philips interventional imaging system due to safety risks

Respected radiologist and his family among hundreds dead in Air India plane crash

Q&A: Cardiologist and EARLY TAVR co-author questions study’s execution