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.

Senate Reintroduces IPAB Repeal Bill

GOP senators have introduced a companion bill to the bi-partisan legislation introduced in the House last month that would repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board

Russell Branzell Selected President and CEO of CHIME

Russell P. Branzell has been selected President and Chief Executive Officer of the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME).

Indiana Makes First Move to Counter Medical Device Tax

A proposal in Indiana could offer state-level tax credits to offset the 2.3% federal excise tax facing the medical device industry

Daschle to Deliver Keynote at Radiology Leadership Institute Event

The ACR Radiology Leadership Institute Annual Event keynote address will be given by former Senator Tom Daschle at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management

ACR Increases Lobbying Against Further Medicare Cuts to Imaging

The ACR has increased efforts to protect imaging from further Medicare cuts with a letter to Congress and the grassroots "Stand Up For Radiology" program

Jubilant HollisterStier Approved for Manufacture of Lantheus' DEFINITY Vial

Lantheus receives FDA approval for Jubilant HollisterStier to become a new manufacturing site for DEFINITY Vial, an ultrasound contrast agent

Planmed's Verity Extremity Scanner Gets FDA OK

Planmed’s Verity Extremity scanner has received 510(k) clearance from the FDA

The Bigger Picture Behind the Imaging MPPR

MMP

The fiscal-cliff negotiations have come and gone without the hoped-for repeal of the 2013 Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction (MPPR) for imaging. An enhancement of the MPPR contained in the 2012 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS), the 2013 version extends the payment reduction to many second imaging procedures performed—by the same individual