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.

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Imaging advocates, bipartisan lawmakers unite to oppose ‘misguided and massive’ Medicare pay cuts

Congressmen highlighted a planned wage increase for clinical labor that will spell 20% reductions elsewhere, due to budget neutrality. 

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Patients with dangerous delayed appendicitis diagnoses are markedly less likely to undergo imaging

Imaging can drop the chances of misdiagnosis, but overuse of CT increases radiation risks, and ultrasound can produce false positives, experts wrote in JAMA Network Open

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Parents sue top children’s hospital alleging negligent care, MRI delays contributed to son’s death

CJ Harris' mother, Marie, says she asked for an MRI many times but was denied because the braces on her son's teeth may have rendered the scan unreadable, the lawsuit claims.

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Breast radiologists’ opinions diverge on how to structure resident education, rotations

Imaging experts said they were "surprised" at the lack of consensus regarding how to manage first rotations during a 12-week program.

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COVID-19 vaccines have buoyed healthcare profits

Healthcare companies have seen profits rise during the second quarter of 2021 thanks to COVID-19 vaccines and Americans returned to doctors’ offices.

 

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Healthcare orgs given extra time to comply with price transparency

The Biden administration has given healthcare organizations extra time to comply with a price transparency rule.

 

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Doctors the only healthcare workers seeing healthy long-term wage growth, although women have made some overall gains on men

Physicians enjoyed a substantial rise in mean wage growth between 2001 and 2017, while registered nurses and healthcare practitioners such as dentists and chiropractors saw a modest bounce in pay.

Nurse union says hospitals are ‘crying false tears’ over understaffing; hospitals reply ‘Are you kidding?’

An open brawl broke out late last week after the nation’s largest nurses’ union accused hospitals of “deliberately refusing” to pony up for optimal RN-to-patient staffing ratios—and a hospital industry spokesperson hit back.