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.

5 reasons renal patients should consult a radiologist before going dialysis-dependent

More and more people are being diagnosed with end-stage renal disease (ESRD)—a condition that, without dialysis, can lead to death within weeks—and those patients need radiologists more than ever, Sandra O’Rear, BSN, RN, and colleagues wrote in the Journal of Radiology Nursing.

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Moody’s: For-profit hospitals’ outlook stable but value-based care investments are needed

Moody’s Investors Service maintained its stable outlook for the for-profit hospital industry, predicting some small growth in same-facility revenues and patient volumes while margins would remain flat. Looking ahead, however, it advises facilities to pay more attention to value-based care concepts and new technologies like telemedicine and artificial intelligence.

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Low mammography quality leads to more false positives, less comfort for women

Low mammography quality has been linked to an increase in false positives, Canadian radiologists reported this month. Such a decrease in standard of care could be compromising patient comfort during an already-disconcerting procedure.

CMS cancels announcement about rejecting lifetime limits in Medicaid

CMS was set to announce on May 1 it would deny a Medicaid waiver request from Kansas to impose a three-year lifetime limit on benefits in the program, but internal disagreements scuttled the announcement at the last minute, according to The Hill.

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$5,751 for an ice pack? Hefty bills await patients just for walking into ER

In the latest article in Vox’s series on hospital billing practices, Jessica Pell told a story that isn’t a one-off case: She went to an emergency room (ER), received a minimal amount of help and still got saddled with a massive bill.

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Should breast cancer screening programs include DBT in the prevalent screening round?

Adding digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) to digital mammography (DM) in the prevalent screening round of a breast cancer screening program leads to a reduced recall rate and improved reader confidence, according to a new study published by Clinical Radiology.

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Postmortem CT angiography trumps autopsy in identifying cause of death

CT angiography could be improving the quality of postmortem diagnosis, researchers reported in Radiology this week—but the tool isn’t often used in the autopsy room.

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Former health system employee charged with selling stolen medical equipment, including imaging systems

Corey Hollmann, the 44-year-old former head of Melbourne Same Day Surgery Center in Melbourne, Florida, has been charged with selling stolen hospital equipment—including medical monitors, imaging systems and skin-grafting instruments—from the nearby Holmes Regional Medical Center.