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.

The spectacular failure of Amazon’s Haven Healthcare and 4 key takeaways for radiology

Indiana University imaging experts see an opportunity for the specialty to learn from the tech offshoot's demise.

Heavily consolidated radiology publishing market may give a few key players unequal power

That’s according to a new study of traditional and open-access business models spanning radiology-focused journals, shared in Clinical Imaging.

Medical AI company Caption Health appoints new CEO

Steve Cashman has been named CEO and president of the Brisbane, California-based organization, effective April 14.

Radiologists must play central role in improving the patient experience. Experts offer tips

There are numerous ways members of the specialty can go above and beyond to "wow" the healthcare consumer, ACR experts say.

Simulator helps early career radiologists master imaging appropriateness and other concepts

Weill Cornell Medicine created the Interactive Clinical Anatomy and Radiology Utilization Simulator utilizing 25 different peer-reviewed electronic modules.

Heart failure deaths are rising in the US, especially in states that reject Medicaid expansion

Researchers examined heart failure mortality from 1999 to 2017, detailing some of the many trends they uncovered in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Health policy experts offer 3 fixes for Medicare’s ‘dysfunctional’ advanced-imaging payment system

CMS should coordinate rate-setting between OPPS and the physician fee schedule, and consider implementing prior authorization, Brookings experts argued.

‘Imperative’ that providers consider cancer survivors for low-dose CT screening, radiologists charge

The number of such survivors has swelled in recent years amid improvements in diagnosis and treatment, experts wrote in JACR.

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