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.

Certificate-of-need exemption fuels hospital’s outpatient imaging expansion in growing market
West Virginia carved out a CON concession for certain diagnostic imaging services in 2023, with Valley Health capitalizing on the law change.
Sterile, temperature-controlled preservation reduces long-term mortality after heart transplant by 54%
An advanced preservation system from Paragonix, a Getinge company, was linked to dramatic reductions in both mortality and procedural complications.
Envision Healthcare exits imaging, with its 400 radiologists joining Rad Partners
The nation’s largest radiology practice—now with 4,000 physicians—also has inked a “transition agreement," offering Envision's 95 imaging clients the option to continue with RP.
Healthcare AI newswatch: Bill Gates detractors, structured medical timelines, helpful China tariffs, more
Bill Gates wasn’t just wrong to suggest AI will make physicians unnecessary. He was reckless.
Industry watchers call healthcare AI a ‘double-edged sword’ that ‘cannot function in isolation’
Healthcare may finally have struck a healthy balance between AI hype and AI reality, according to a report from impartial observers who are also, indirectly at least, healthcare AI stakeholders.

Interventional cardiology to join the Match in 2025

It is an announcement many interventional cardiologists have been waiting to hear for a long time.

Ed Gaines, JD, CCP, vice president of regulatory affairs and industry liaison, Zotec Partners, discusses the No Surprises Act on radiology at the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) 2022 meeting. Gaines works with RSNA on billing and Medicare issues and spoke in sessions at the RSNA 2022 meeting. Insurance companies have weaponized the No Surprises Act in an effort to cut their costs, he said.

VIDEO: Insurance companies have weaponized the No Surprises Act, may impact patient care

Ed Gaines, JD, CCP, vice president of regulatory affairs and industry liaison, Zotec Partners, discusses the impact of the No Surprises Act on healthcare and medical imaging at the RSNA 2022 meeting

CMS proposes rule on prior authorization

Prior authorization, which requires healthcare providers to get approval from insurance providers before giving certain treatments to patients, has been long-hailed as extremely burdensome to physicians, even causing delays in patient care.

Little-known hereditary ataxia may gain understanding in the wake of high-profile NFL head traumas

A radiologist with a rare inherited neurological condition is drawing strength from, of all things, the NFL’s concussion protocol.

Most devices implanted during LAAO procedures are oversized—and patients benefit

Oversized devices are becoming more common as time goes on, which suggests operators are growing increasingly comfortable with this treatment choice.

How a newly secured 3D printing patent could stabilize radioisotope production

Recently, a patent for 3D printed uranium targets was secured by the National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ) in Swierk, Poland, and it could increase the production of Molybdenum-99 (Mo-99) globally.

Advocate Health names leadership team after Atrium merger

Advocate Health, the newly combined entity of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health, is now the fifth largest nonprofit health system in the United States.

Virtual reading room remains popular post-pandemic among certain radiologists, referrers

A large academic medical center launched a virtual radiology reading room in 2020 to comply with COVID-related social distancing guidelines. Today the room is still something of a hit.

Management

Certificate-of-need exemption fuels hospital’s outpatient imaging expansion in growing market

Sterile, temperature-controlled preservation reduces long-term mortality after heart transplant by 54%

Envision Healthcare exits imaging, with its 400 radiologists joining Rad Partners

Healthcare AI newswatch: Bill Gates detractors, structured medical timelines, helpful China tariffs, more

Industry watchers call healthcare AI a ‘double-edged sword’ that ‘cannot function in isolation’