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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Imaging center operator RadNet launches new joint venture partnership with Providence

Meanwhile, Moody's also recently issued a credit upgrade for the Los Angeles-based company, highlighting its "healthy" organic growth and "very good" liquidity. 

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Tenet completes sales spree, deals six Calif. hospitals

Previously disclosed terms valued the transactions at a combined $1.5 billion.

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Kaiser’s Risant completes first acquisition

The first phase of Kaiser Permanente’s rollout of Risant Health has been completed, as the new nonprofit organization has officially closed its blockbuster acquisition of Geisinger Health.

Abbott has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its TriClip transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (TEER) system designed to treat tricuspid regurgitation (TR).

FDA approves Abbott’s TriClip TEER device for tricuspid regurgitation

Less than two months after an FDA advisory panel voted in favor of approval, the transcatheter edge-to-edge repair system can now be sold and marketed in the United States.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Buzzworthy developments of the past few days.

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Ready and willing but not yet able: America’s schools staring down GenAI

The nation’s K-12 teachers and school administrators are intrigued by—yet anxious about—the advance of AI into their world.

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Former radiology group employees settle lawsuit over retirement benefits for $19M

About 180 former employees settled a suit with the former managers and owners of their radiology practice, saying their retirement benefits were mismanaged. 

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Expedited g-tube placement cuts costs and LOS in head and neck cancer patients

There were no statistical differences in overall complication rates between the traditional and expedited groups, but there were marked savings and shorter hospital stays.