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.

Walgreens’ $10B acquisition by private equity firm approved by shareholders
Shareholders of the retail pharmacy giant voted in favor of the terms of the sale to Sycamore Partners for $11.45 a share. The deal is expected to close later this year.
AI algorithm that diagnoses depression from MRI scans gains key regulatory approval
Experts are hopeful the software can bring more objectivity to the diagnostic process by giving providers visual evidence of alterations in brain activity.
Software glitch triggers FDA recall of nearly 2,000 GE SPECT and CT systems
According to the notification, the issue can cause the scanners to inadvertently move during imaging.
CMS proposes Medicare coverage for renal denervation
This proposal, if finalized, would dramatically increase patient access to renal denervation. Both Recor Medical and Medtronic have shared their excitement over the news.
AI-enabled coronary plaque evaluations included in new RBM guidelines
The use of advanced AI software to assess CCTA images continues to gain more momentum.

Imaging center owner/doctor charged with doing $1M-plus in fraudulent, risky-to-patients business

A state attorney general has indicted the physician owner of an imaging center for bribing colleagues to order unnecessary exams before performing the exams—including some with IV contrast—and submitting false claims to CMS.

The best and worst states for healthcare in 2022

The average American spends more than $12,500 per year on personal healthcare, but what are Americans getting in return for those investments?

Cardiologist-backed bill focused on the heart health of South Asian Americans gains momentum

After successfully making it through the House, the new legislation is now headed to the Senate.

For prostate cancer diagnostics, 7T MRI has next to nothing on ultrasound tomography

In an initial comparison study involving 10 patients with high-risk prostate cancer, ultrasound tomography (UT) soundly beat 7-Tesla multiparametric MRI on detection sensitivity, 85.7% to 65.3%.

Family-med POCUS is growing strong, but problems aren’t solving themselves

Close to 90% of family-medicine departments at U.S. medical schools employ one or more faculty members trained in point-of-care ultrasound, including 7% that are presently training at least one (or one more).

Cardiologists, radiologists join American Medical Association to speak out against ACA lawsuit

Yet another lawsuit is taking aim at the Affordable Care Act, and 61 U.S. medical organizations have joined forces to speak out.

Federal agencies reinforce contraceptive coverage guidance

“Under the ACA, you have the right to free birth control — no matter what state you live in," HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said.

How to get paid, reimbursed, for cardiac CT, CTA CCTA. #SCCT #SCCT2022

VIDEO: How imagers get reimbursed for coronary CTA

Ahmad M. Slim, MD, associate professor of medicine with the University of Washington and regional chief medical officer with the Pulse Heart Institute, explained how imagers get paid for coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) exams.

Management

Walgreens’ $10B acquisition by private equity firm approved by shareholders

AI algorithm that diagnoses depression from MRI scans gains key regulatory approval

Software glitch triggers FDA recall of nearly 2,000 GE SPECT and CT systems

CMS proposes Medicare coverage for renal denervation

AI-enabled coronary plaque evaluations included in new RBM guidelines