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.

Cardiology needs to evolve in the face of employment trends
Cardiology has largely shifted to hospital-employed models, driven by reimbursement compression and evolving physician priorities. This has created challenges as well as opportunities.
FDA clears Abbott delivery device for closing holes in the hearts of premature infants
Cardiologists now have a new tool to assist with PDA closure in these vulnerable patients.
American College of Radiology’s longtime head of advocacy to retire
Cynthia R. Moran joined the organization in 2003 after previously spending a decade as director of government relations with the American Academy of Ophthalmology
In brief: Dems and GOPers both wrong about healthcare | Physician trainees literally going hungry | Uplifting points of 2025 light
Democrats want to keep Obamacare going. Republicans want to replace it, ideally with health savings accounts. Regardless of which approach holds sway this week—or whenever—either one would be woefully shortsighted.
House GOP slaps down ACA subsidies as ‘Lower Health Care Premiums Act’ moves to Senate
A Hail Mary attempt by a bipartisan group to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits failed. The new bill contains some reforms, including new reporting requirements for PBMs and support for associated health plans. It now faces the Senate.

A new analysis of Medicare data demonstrates a decline in imaging use and a possibly related rise in length of hospital stays.

With the final Medicare Physician Fee Schedule rule due out shortly, ASTRO brought its case to Office of Management and Budget officials.

HHS has made minor corrections to the Stage 2 Meaningful Use regulations. The changes do not affect the implementation date.

The upstate New York radiology practice acquires local imaging group, inks major contract with insurance providers.

The scope of a 2010 whistleblower suit filed against Adventist Health System broadened this week to include ER imaging.

The new 3-day leadership development program promises radiology-specific simulated challenges, coaching and more.

The American College of Radiology is urging its members to contact their Senators and ask them to support S. 2347.

House Republicans are no longer alone in voicing concerns about Meaningful Use. Four Senators have now written HHS, too.