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.

Early TAVR for asymptomatic severe AS cuts costs, improves outcomes

The study found lifetime per-patient savings from early TAVR ranged from about $2,334 in the U.K. to $19,607 in Switzerland.

Routine IR procedure could treat endometriosis.

ASTRO releases new radiation therapy guidelines for gastric cancers

Many forms of the disease are identified at later stages, making treatment and management complex and multifaceted. 

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Healthcare AI today: Help for dutiful caregivers, Trump vs. state regulators, healthcare AI supply & demand

$2M says home-based caregivers could use a little more AI in their day-to-day lives.

money maze payment reimbursement

Radiology societies join initiative to fight payer restrictions around key interventional service

ACR, SIR and others altogether representing over 100,000 physicians recently wrote to 5 of the 7 Medicare Administrative Contractors to voice their concerns. 

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Multispecialty physician group expands into imaging by adding 36-rad private practice

Northern California-based Vituity, which is led and owned by doctors, said it has reached a deal to partner with Focused Medical Imaging. 

UCLA Health

UCLA launches ‘first of its kind’ new standalone Department of Nuclear Medicine and Theranostics

“Becoming an independent department elevates this work and strengthens UCLA’s role in shaping the future of precision health," said the department's new acting chairman. 

RapidAI's opportunistic aortic management tool earns FDA clearance

FDA clears RapidAI's opportunistic aortic management tool

The solution can assess the aorta on any CT scan that offers visualization of it, including post-treatment and unenhanced noncontrast studies. 

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Four providers, two data exchanges sued over high cost of medical record access in Maine

In a report, News Center Maine spoke to a personal injury attorney who said she often receives numerous copies of medical records for her clients, each with its own fee. She said she is glad someone decided to sue over the issue, which may violate state law capping patient record-sharing costs.