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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FTC sues drug middlemen over insulin prices, puts others on notice

The FTC alleges that pharmacy benefit managers have set up a system where they get rich, while patients are forced to pay rising insulin costs. The agency also called out drug manufacturers such as Eli Lilly, Sanofi and Novo Nordisk, saying their own actions have raised serious concerns.

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Industry Watcher’s Digest

Congress is swamped with AI bills. 

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UN effort afoot to address the world’s ‘governance deficit with respect to AI’

The AI advisory board of the United Nations is calling for the creation of a global AI data framework. 

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State Supreme Court ruling holds hospitals accountable for mistakes made by independently contracted radiologists

Washington becomes one of a select few where attorneys can also go after a hospital that hired outside physicians, joining South Carolina, Michigan, Maryland and Iowa

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AI deployment platform Ferrum Health ups fundraising total to $31M

The California company's platform allows radiologists and other clinicians to validate the performance of AI on local datasets and deploy such software in existing workflows. 

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Company that handles teleradiology reads for urgent care centers adds AI enhancements

Private equity-backed Experity completes over 5 million radiology studies annually with an average turnaround time of 10.78 minutes for STAT reads.  

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CVS subsidiary Oak Street Health fined $60M for kickback scheme

Oak City Health paid $200 for every Medicare Advantage patient refereed to its clinics for services, the U.S Department of Justice said. 

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Referring providers share preferences for radiology report templates

New research suggests that there might not be a straightforward answer to questions related to which type of reporting method is ideal.