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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CMS finalizes $340M payment bump for hospices in 2019

Hospices will see a 1.8 percent, or $340 million, payment increase in 2019 after CMS finalized its annual payment update.

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Bayer responds to Netflix documentary slamming birth control implant

Bayer has shot back after a documentary aired on Netflix took aim its controversial birth control implant, Essure.

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Family awarded $3.5M after ER doctor misdiagnoses fatal stroke

The family of Melanie Smith, a mother of two who died in 2015 at the age of 40, was awarded $3.5 million by a jury this week after an emergency room (ER) physician reportedly failed to diagnose Smith’s stroke in time, leading to her death, the Staunton News Leader has reported.

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Female radiologists in Maryland make much less than male counterparts

In Maryland, annual compensation is lower for female radiologists than it is for male counterparts, according to new survey data collected by Merritt Hawkins.

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North Carolina MD's affordable MRI center prohibited by state legislation

After Gajendra Singh, MD, was quoted $1,200 for an ultrasound at his local hospital’s outpatient department, he decided to open his own low-cost imaging center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. But that’s where his problems began, Vox reported.

Rising prices will drive healthcare spending near 20% of US GDP by 2025

The U.S. will soon spend close to 20 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on health, according to The Wall Street Journal, up from the current level of about 18 percent. In December 2017, the healthcare industry became the nation’s largest employment sector. 

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Outside the reading room: Field trips expose medical students to patient-centered radiology

Integrating structured field trips to the imaging department during a four-week radiology clerkship could help expose medical students to the patient-centered, team-based aspects of the specialty, according to a review published this July in Academic Radiology.

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Lung cancer deaths among women expected to rise 40% by 2030—breast cancer deaths to drop

Lung cancer mortality rates among women around the world could increase by 40 percent by 2030, according to a new study published in Cancer Research. Breast cancer mortality rates, meanwhile, are expected to decrease by 9 percent.