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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New guidance details Medicare drug price negotiations coming in 2026

For the first time, Medicare will have the ability to negotiate prices of certain medications. These negotiations will focus on key questions such as the drug's benefits, the extent to which it fulfills an unmet medical need and its impact on Medicare beneficiaries.

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Rad Partners, Rayus Radiology and RadNet urge CMS to address ‘systemic threats’ to imaging access

Meanwhile, MedPAC has recommended a pay hike for physicians, drawing praise from the American Medical Association. 

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Radiologists’ perspective sorely lacking in media coverage of lung cancer screening programs

Less than 10% of news articles published during a 12-year period mentioned the specialty and its role in LCS, experts wrote in AJR

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Tech firm, specializing in tools to enhance MR imaging, ups fundraising total to $140M

Perspectum's flagship product is a noninvasive AI tool used to help physicians evaluate for the signs of liver disease. 

QTrobot (left) and Misty. Photos by Hatice Gunes/University of Cambridge.

Toylike robot pleases counseling clients where humanoid counterpart struggles to connect

When human counselors are unavailable to provide work-based wellness coaching, robots can substitute—as long as the workers are comfortable with emerging technologies and the machines aren’t overly humanlike.

Industry groups agree MedPAC’s inflationary update is not enough

The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) wants to tie physician payments to inflation. Healthcare groups say it doesn't go far enough

The American Medical Association (AMA) has declared climate change as a major healthcare emergency. Sunrises and sunsets have become increasingly red in recent years with additional particulate matter in the atmosphere from larger, massive wild fires. Photo by Dave Fornell

Bringing back the sabbatical: Radiologists offer 4 tips on how to make it happen

Two academic radiologists recently shared their experiences with taking extended time away from work in the hope that their story would encourage others to do the same. 

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Most US adults with medical debt owe hospitals

A significant portion of U.S. adults have some past-due medical debt, according to a recent study from the Urban Institute, and the majority of those with debt owe non-profit hospitals.