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.

Radiologists call for innovative funding strategies to boost specialty’s workforce
Physicians made their plea in in the February issue of the JACR, which is focused on the “Economics of Education,” and meant to spark “dialogue around how radiology education is valued, supported and delivered.”
Medicare testing new breast cancer screening cost measure
The federal payment program and its third-party partner, Acumen LLC, are now sending surveys to imaging groups that administered 10 or more screening mammograms in 2024.
Las Vegas hospital loses mammography accreditation after inspection unearths quality issues
Summerlin Hospital recently sent letters to patients who received breast scans there sometime between October 2023 and December 2025.
Radiologists and cardiologists at odds over who handles heart imaging interpretations
Many cardiologists overseas contend they should be the ones reading these exams, citing radiologists’ lack of clinical context as a key factor, especially for remote reads.
Hidden costs of enterprise email may top $4M per year per hospital
E-mails sent to the full workforce at hospitals and health systems are costly due to the time they take away from recipients’ other essential duties and tasks. How costly? Researchers have done the math.

Andrei Churyla, MD, Douglas Johnston, MD, and R. Kannan Mutharasan, MD, tour a clinic room designed for future AI technology pilots at Palos Hospital.

Northwestern Medicine opens advanced outpatient cardiac clinic at suburban Chicago

Northwestern Medicine opens a new outpatient cardiology clinic to address better patient access to care in Chicago's south suburbs.

On its own, MRI-targeted biopsy takes big bite out of prostate cancer overdiagnosis

The gain came with the delayed discovery of only a few clinically significant cancers.

Health spending reached $4.3 trillion in 2021

After a significant jump in healthcare spending in 2020 with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare spending in the United States only increased 2.7% in 2021, according to new analysis from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), published in Health Affairs.

Movers & Shakers: Jefferson Health, Genesis Health, Roche Pharma announce leadership changes

Welcome to Movers & Shakers, a roundup of the latest executive movements in the healthcare industry, featuring executive leadership changes at Jefferson Health, Genesis Health System and Roche Pharmaceuticals.

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Follow-up care improves with reporting template for incidental findings

Use of the template, which included PCP notifications, also resulted in an increase of biochemical testing, follow-up imaging and specialist referrals in patients with incidental adrenal masses.

Healthcare CEO turnover surges in November as leaders retire

CEO turnover surged in the final months of 2022, indicating that the disruptive labor challenges that have defined this year may not be over.

AMA, state associations urge Congress to avoid Medicare payment cuts

The American Medical Association is asking Congress to step in before new Medicare payment cuts go into effect in 2023.

Find It Early Act takes flight on Capitol Hill

Women with dense breasts or other heightened risk factors for breast cancer may be on the cusp of receiving 100% coverage for additional imaging beyond standard mammography.

Management

Radiologists call for innovative funding strategies to boost specialty’s workforce

Medicare testing new breast cancer screening cost measure

Las Vegas hospital loses mammography accreditation after inspection unearths quality issues

Radiologists and cardiologists at odds over who handles heart imaging interpretations

Hidden costs of enterprise email may top $4M per year per hospital