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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Brazen marital healthcare scheme ends with guilty pleas

A former Alabama doctor and her wife faced a slew of charges related to healthcare billing fraud, misuse of PPE loan funds and illegal distribution of opiates.

The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates today elected Bobby Mukkamala, MD, an otolaryngologist from Flint, Michigan, as president-elect of the AMA for the 2025-2026 term. Mukkamala will be inaugurated as AMA president in June 2025. Photo courtesy of the AMA

AMA elects new president heavily involved in Flint water contamination response

The American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates elected a new president and numerous other positions.

Joel Sauer, MBA, MedAxoim, explains why there is a big business trend in cardiology toward remote monitoring and telehealth to cut costs. #ACC #MedAxiom #Telecardiology #remotemonitoring #ACC2024

Telemedicine, remote monitoring help reduce healthcare costs

As profit margins in healthcare continue to shrink, telemedicine and remote monitoring are seeing a large increase to help cut costs while still delivering care outside of the hospital.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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New data underline importance of expanding Medicaid to address poor lung cancer screening uptake

“Also needed are institutional and societal efforts to address LCS capacity, including screening infrastructure investments and quality benchmarking," experts wrote in JAMA Internal Medicine

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RadNet and Radiology Partners CEOs among the ‘most influential’ leaders in Los Angeles

This is the seventh annual LA500 for the Los Angeles Business Journal and first to include RP's Rich Whitney, MBA, and RadNet's Howard Berger, MD. 

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UnitedHealthcare briefly knocks state’s largest nonprofit system and its imaging centers out of network

Mobile, Alabama-based Infirmary Health has more than 700 doctors on its medical staff including about 20 radiologists, providing imaging services at a dozen locations. 
 

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5 views on AI in healthcare from the American College of Physicians

Medical professionals using AI in clinical decision-making should limit the technology’s reach to a supportive role, says the ACP.