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.

Medtronic’s RDN system approved in Japan
Hypertension is a significant issue in Japan, impacting an estimated 43 million adults. Medtronic's Symplicity Spyral RDN system is now approved for the treatment of those patients.
ED docs overusing CT imaging for gastrointestinal bleeding, study finds
Despite its high accuracy, CTA can come with tradeoffs including requiring radiologists to review a high number of images looking for findings that can be subtle, increasing case complexity and workloads.
Stanford Medicine picks RSNA president as next radiology chair
Umar Mahmood, MD, PhD, currently is chief of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and a Harvard professor of radiology, will take on the title beginning Feb. 1.
Nurse practitioner, nonprofit challenge Missouri’s collaborative practice law
Marcy Markes, NP, has secured representation from the Pacific Legal Foundation in an effort to overturn a state law that requires nurse practitioners to pay a physician “collaborator” if they wish to run their own practice. The lawsuit argues the regulation exists only to stifle competition.
Massachusetts settles $12M lawsuit against CVS over alleged drug overpricing
The pharmacy chain also agreed to perform an annual audit of billed drug prices to ensure it does not run afoul of the state’s “Most Favored Nation” policy.

GoodRX and CVS Caremark partner to offer discounted prescriptions

As part of the program, eligible Caremark members who carry commercial insurance will have GoodRX’s discounted pricing applied automatically to their prescription purchases.

Johnson & Johnson files suit against doctors who linked the company's talc products to cancer

The multinational corporation alleges that the physicians have "made careers and small fortunes" by defaming J&J's products.

Eli Lilly to acquire private equity-backed drugmaker for up to $1.9B

Versanis, founded in 2021 by a venture capital firm, is primarily known as the company behind the obesity drug bimagrumab.

Radiology Partners officially served with UnitedHealthcare lawsuit 3 months after initial filing

The window to serve RP with the complaint was slated to expire July 13, with a judge prepared to dismiss the case if the action was not completed

CMS seeks feedback on issuing separate payment for diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals

The agency issued its solicitation as part of the recently released 2024 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System proposed rule.

Vienna-based ultrasound startup eyes US expansion after closing $5.5M fundraising round

Piur Imaging claims that its “Infinity” offering is the only vendor-neutral, tomographic 3D ultrasound solution on the market.

Medicare fee schedule proposes pay cut for diagnostic and interventional radiology; ditching AUC program also on the table

Imaging advocates blasted the proposal shortly after its release, saying it's "unconscionable that radiology is again on the chopping block."

Natural language processing can limit report discrepancies between AI and radiologists

A Journal of the American College of Radiology study details how one radiology department implemented NLP software to resolve inadvertent discordance between physicians and an AI decision support system.

Management

Medtronic’s RDN system approved in Japan

ED docs overusing CT imaging for gastrointestinal bleeding, study finds

Stanford Medicine picks RSNA president as next radiology chair

Nurse practitioner, nonprofit challenge Missouri’s collaborative practice law

Massachusetts settles $12M lawsuit against CVS over alleged drug overpricing