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.

FDA details new risk with Johnson & Johnson heart pump controllers after patient’s death
This latest alert was put in place after Johnson & Johnson MedTech learned that some of its Automated Impella Controllers were built to the wrong specifications, impacting their ability to function. Affected devices should not be used going forward.
80% of requests for emergency head CT inadequate, single-center study finds
Addressing these inappropriate imaging referrals is necessary to reduce healthcare costs, radiation exposure and pollution, experts write in Insights into Imaging.
63% of radiologists, other docs surveyed seeing physician applicant shortages
Approximately 42% of those polled aren’t confident progress will be made in the next decade to address the shortfall, Medscape found.
Report: DOJ investigating business practices of UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx
Bloomberg said the pharmacy benefit manager is being probed as part of a larger look into the “prescription management services” of UnitedHealth. According to sources, this may be related to an ongoing investigation into alleged instances of Medicare Advantage upcoding.
New $6B Eversana looks to bypass PBMs and lower drug prices
A merger between Eversana and Waltz Health will create a new entity that CEO Mark Thierer says will upend the “existing oligopoly that I helped build.”

Stronger report wording, direct calls to referrers help boost outpatients’ follow-up imaging odds

Only 65% of patients actually receive recommended additional imaging in this setting, with a median turnaround time of 50 days, according to a new study.

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Internal infections serious enough to require hospitalization raise 30-day CVD risk: 2-country, multicohort study

Patients hospitalized for severe infectious diseases are at heightened risk of major cardiovascular-disease events within a month of admission date.

'Quite impressive': ChatGPT generates a nuclear medicine report

The generated report included indication, findings laid out numerically, TNM stage, impression and follow-up recommendations.

Nearly all health leaders are investing in software this year

A whopping 94% of health leaders in the survey said they plan to invest in software this year, partly to fend off clinician burnout and a looming recession.

American College of Radiology says accreditation fees will rise 9% across most modalities

Pricing updates will take effect on July 1 and mark the first rate increase in more than a decade, ACR said.

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Healthcare groups ask CMS to create hybrid primary care payment option

Twenty-seven healthcare organizations signed the letter to CMS asking the agency to create a hybrid payment model, including the National Association of Accountable Care Organizations, AMGA, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Primary Care Collaborative.

Nuclear medicine records the lowest gender pay gap among physician specialties

Doximity's new 2023 Physician Compensation Report offers detailed insight into the impact of continued efforts to narrow the gender pay gap in medicine.

Radiology business advocates implore Congress to remedy worsening physician shortages

ACR and RBMA want lawmakers to reintroduce the Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act to begin addressing a growing deficit of docs.

Management

FDA details new risk with Johnson & Johnson heart pump controllers after patient’s death

80% of requests for emergency head CT inadequate, single-center study finds

63% of radiologists, other docs surveyed seeing physician applicant shortages

Report: DOJ investigating business practices of UnitedHealth’s Optum Rx

New $6B Eversana looks to bypass PBMs and lower drug prices