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.

Upcoding on the rise across all outpatient settings, study finds
A report by researchers at Trilliant Health found that common symptoms—such as cough, nausea and rash—are often coded as complex medical events, resulting in higher reimbursement rates.
CVS, Kroger among bidders for Rite Aid stores and prescription data
According to a report, Walgreens also expressed interest in an unknown number of pharmacies as Rite Aid seeks to liquidate all its assets.
Cardiology employment models undergoing a dramatic shift
Gerald G. Blackwell, MD, MBA, MedAxiom's president and CEO, examined how different cardiology employment models look today compared to even a decade ago.
Former HHS Secretary Tom Price: Immigration reform could alleviate healthcare staffing crisis
Tom Price, MD, an orthopedic surgeon, and former secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) is an advocate for changing immigration policy to help solve the growing shortage of doctors and nurses in the U.S.
Original Banksy artwork headed to auction—proceeds will help fund heart research
The piece in question, which features a red heart-shaped balloon, has an unusual origin story, even by Banksy’s standards.

Richard Ernst, who helped pioneer MRI, dies at 87

The Swiss scientist won the 1991 Nobel Prize in chemistry for his contributions to high-resolution nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Fashion is coming for healthcare workers

Some healthcare workers are using personal protective equipment to express themselves, giving fashion a new inroad into the workplace.

A practice ‘imperative’: Schooling referrers on interventional radiology’s broad range of services

IR predominantly relies on referrals, and physicians must help to increase awareness among peers with little knowledge about the subspecialty, experts charged.

layoffs staff cuts termination workforce

Imaging firm cutting one-third of workforce; US Radiology Specialists' partnership, plus more vendor news

Also, Butterfly Network building a new headquarters, Hyperfine names a CEO, and ImaginAb raises $12.8 million in funding.

Hyperfine taps former Apple guru as its new president and CEO

Dave Scott brings 25 years of knowledge to the Guilford, Connecticut, portable MRI firm, including research and development experience within Apple's secretive Special Projects Group.

Use of gender-specific, exclusionary titles such as ‘chairman’ still common among radiology departments

Adopting inclusive leadership roles may help the male-dominated specialty move away from bias, experts wrote in Academic Radiology.

FDA’s new drug approval means little if CMS won’t update amyloid PET policy, imaging advocate says

Alzheimer's patients will need to have a brain scan showing the presence of beta-amyloid in order to receive Biogen's Aduhelm (aducanumab) treatment, yet Medicare doesn't cover such exams.

American College of Radiology opposes rebranding physician assistants as ‘associates’

Doc groups believe the title change is "clearly an attempt" to move the PA profession toward independent practice.

Management

Upcoding on the rise across all outpatient settings, study finds

CVS, Kroger among bidders for Rite Aid stores and prescription data

Cardiology employment models undergoing a dramatic shift

Former HHS Secretary Tom Price: Immigration reform could alleviate healthcare staffing crisis

Original Banksy artwork headed to auction—proceeds will help fund heart research