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.

Radiologists collect $90M in research funding from imaging industry, with overall share of pie falling
Altogether, members of the specialty collected nearly 5,800 of these payments in 2024, from sources such as pharmaceutical companies and imaging device manufacturers.
Radiology vendors merge, creating platform that manages medical imaging for nearly 6M Americans
Medmo and Covera Health, both based in New York, officially announced their merger on April 21, with the latter’s lead investor, Insight Partners, funding the deal.
Oz gives states 30 days to plan for Medicaid provider revalidation as part of CMS fraud audit
Speaking at a Politico health care policy forum, CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, MD, said he supports Medicaid, adding that “when you love something, you protect it.”
UnitedHealthcare drops most prior authorizations in rural areas as part of improvement initiative
The insurance giant has been piloting a program to speed up reimbursement to hospitals in 10 states, reducing delays by roughly 50%. Now, the company said it will work to lift prior authorization barriers on patient care delivery. The intent is to roll out these changes nationwide by the end of 2026, UnitedHealthcare confirmed.
Healthcare AI often arrives with great expectations only to disappoint end-users as well as execs. Why is that?
By and large, U.S. hospitals and health systems do not have an AI adoption problem. But many—if not most—have an execution problem: They struggle to turn a set of installed AI tools into a measurable operational value.

Cardiology practice launches walk-in clinic in Pennsylvania

The new clinic wants to keep patients out of hospital EDs when possible and provide care at a lower cost.

Can energy drinks cause heart disease? New lawsuit says teen died from caffeine-induced cardiomyopathy

The family of a teenage girl who died unexpectedly in 2025 has sued two energy drink distributors.

Judge dismisses CVS-Aetna’s lawsuit against Radiology Partners

"This case reflects a troubling pattern in which payers, dissatisfied with IDR results, increasingly try to attack those outcomes outside the framework Congress created," Rad Partners says.

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Radiologist pipeline barely keeping pace with population growth

“Expanding residency slots and mitigating workforce attrition will be necessary to mitigate increasing workforce gaps," experts write in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.

Radiologist Radiology Money Dollar X-ray Scan Finance

Radiologists earning an average of $571,000, up 9% year over year

The figure places the specialty third among medicine’s highest earners, behind only orthopedics ($611,000) and cardiology ($575,000), Medscape reports.

New data raise concern about Medicare quality payment program, radiology experts say

"Topped-out" measures may not actually reflect universally high performance, a new analysis of CMS data shows.

Radiology provider LucidHealth names new CEO

David Grau, Lucid’s chief operating officer, will take on the title beginning May 1, replacing Steve Corbeil.

FDA announces recall on angiography syringes after 4 serious injuries to patients

The recall is officially an early alert, as the syringes are part of surgical convenience kits—the rest of which are safe to use. The defective syringes risk causing fatal injuries to patients and must be discarded.

Management

Radiologists collect $90M in research funding from imaging industry, with overall share of pie falling

Radiology vendors merge, creating platform that manages medical imaging for nearly 6M Americans

Oz gives states 30 days to plan for Medicaid provider revalidation as part of CMS fraud audit

UnitedHealthcare drops most prior authorizations in rural areas as part of improvement initiative

Healthcare AI often arrives with great expectations only to disappoint end-users as well as execs. Why is that?