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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Feds may soon take action against Amazon’s monopoly status

Federal investigations that began in 2019 into Amazon’s potential abuse of power and consumer privacy violations may soon come to fruition with lawsuits to block the company's monopoly status, Politico reported. 

 

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Imaging center, partner hospital agree to pay $2M to settle False Claims Act case

Diagnostic Imaging Associates billed CMS for both service components, but the hospital was ineligible for reimbursement, the DOJ said.

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CMS fully resumes dispute resolutions under No Surprises Act following pressure from radiologists

Delays in determinations were "harming members’ practices" by holding up payments for services, the ACR said. 

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Department of Justice drops bid to quash UnitedHealth-Change Healthcare merger

The DOJ first filed suit more than a year ago, arguing the $8B, all-cash deal would stifle competition in the claims-processing and health insurance marketplaces. 

Price for a brain MRI actually cheaper at for-profit hospitals than their nonprofit counterparts

“My takeaway: Commercial negotiated price reflects hospitals’ market power,” the JAMA study's author told Radiology Business

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Explainable stroke AI cleared for US sales

The FDA has OK’d a new artificial intelligence platform for quickly diagnosing stroke on unenhanced CT scans.

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Residents support radiology-based transgender curriculum

The curriculum could improve patient care in this group of individuals who have historically experienced healthcare disparities.

ACC Vice President Cathie Biga explains issues with cardiology reimbursements at ACC23. #ACC #ACC23

Reimbursement challenges raising concerns in cardiology

Cathie Biga, vice president of the American College of Cardiology, spoke to Cardiovascular Business at ACC.23 about challenges in the world of cardiology reimbursements. "As that healthcare dollar goes up, it is not going to the physicians," she said.