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.

4 digital-health skillsets today’s medical educators should give tomorrow’s medical doctors
Due to the ceaseless rush of technological advancements into medicine, many future physicians graduate medical school underprepared for the digital healthcare environment.
New teleradiology solution promises to streamline enterprise imaging operations
Konica Minolta and NewVue announced their collaboration on cloud-based Exa Teleradiology earlier this week.
Report: UnitedHealth rewarded nursing homes for delaying hospital transfers
Citing evidence from documents and interviews, the Guardian released an exposé accusing UnitedHealth of directly influencing the day-to-day operations of some 2,000 nursing homes, resulting in patients not receiving necessary emergency care.
CMS vows to ramp up audits of Medicare Advantage plans
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said it will increase medical coding staff from 40 to 2,000 and begin addressing its backlog of audits on Medicare Advantage plans in an effort to spot signs of fraud and abuse.
FDA wants new heart damage warnings added to COVID-19 vaccines
COVID-19 vaccines are associated with a very low risk of myocarditis and/or pericarditis, primarily in young adults. The long-term impact of this risk has been the subject of many studies and debates over the years; one side says that the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the risks, and the other side says that even the smallest risk of heart damage is too high.

New Mexico hospital names imaging department after long-serving radiologist

Commissioners at Lincoln County Medical Center in Ruidoso, New Mexico, showed their appreciation for Don Wolfel, MD, by naming its imaging department after the 26-year veteran.

How risk-based breast cancer screening could cut costs, reduce overdiagnosis

Breast cancer screening programs could reduce both costs and overdiagnosis by focusing on at-risk women, according to a new study published by JAMA Oncology.

Former FDA, CMS chief Mark McClellan appointed to Cigna’s board

Mark McClellan, MD, a former CMS administrator and a former Commissioner of the FDA, was appointed to Cigna’s board of directors, where he will begin his term Dec. 1.

ASCVD leads to ‘catastrophic’ costs for 2M low-income US families each year

Health insurance does little to protect low-income families from crippling financial hardship when a relative has atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD), according to a study published July 3 in JAMA Cardiology.

As big changes come to radiology, leaders can’t forget about incremental innovation

Imaging leaders can create significant value by implementing incremental innovation at their radiology practices, according to a new study published by Radiology.

Physician: Fear—not facts—drives FDA’s rules for gay blood donors

The FDA’s rules preventing sexually active gay men from donating blood are discriminatory and based on outdated fears, a physician wrote in an op-ed piece for the Los Angeles Times.

Newest board members to officially take office at 2018 AHRA Annual Meeting

The Association for Medical Imaging Management (AHRA) announced this week that the newly elected members of its 2018-2019 Board of Directors will officially be installed on July 23 at the AHRA 2018 Annual Meeting in Orlando.

Mississippi man billed $4K for CT after hospital said insurance would cover it

Jimmie Taggart, 59, visited the clinic at North Mississippi Medical Center in West Point for back pain that CT confirmed to be kidney stones. But the real trouble came when he received a $4,051 bill in the mail after the hospital said his insurance would cover the scan.

Management

4 digital-health skillsets today’s medical educators should give tomorrow’s medical doctors

New teleradiology solution promises to streamline enterprise imaging operations

Report: UnitedHealth rewarded nursing homes for delaying hospital transfers

CMS vows to ramp up audits of Medicare Advantage plans

FDA wants new heart damage warnings added to COVID-19 vaccines