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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Major health insurers agree to reduce prior authorization burden for imaging and other services

AHIP, the industry’s largest lobbying group, made the commitment Monday alongside over 50 payers including UnitedHealthcare and the BCBS Association. 

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Radiology Partners constrained by high interest expenses, low cash-flow generation: S&P

UPDATED: The analysis comes in response to a proposed $1.5 billion term loan for RP, due in 2032, along with $800 million in secured notes and a $390 million revolving credit line. 

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Private equity-backed radiology groups expand in 2 markets

Solis Mammography is adding a new location in Washington, D.C., while US Radiology Specialists is building two in South Carolina. 

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Report: Medicaid cuts could force hundreds of rural hospitals to close their doors

A report from the Chartis Center for Rural Health warns that many hospitals in rural communities are at risk of closure if Medicaid cuts pass through Congress and are enacted by President Donald Trump. According to the analysis, women and newborns will disproportionately lose access to care. 

FDA issues Class I recall on GE Carestations due to ventilation issue

The issue stems from a mode on the ventilation systems malfunctioning. Although no devices need to be removed from care settings, some will require repair.

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FDA issues emergency recall on resuscitation systems due to failure code

A specific model of AutoPulse resuscitation system manufactured by Zoll is prone to a failure code that could result in inadequate chest compressions being administered to patients. The affected kits must be removed from the supply chain immediately.

Suman Tandon, MD, FASNC, a cardiac imager at St. Francis Hospital and Heart Center, in Rosyln, New York, and an American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) representative to the American Medical Association (AMA) House of Delegates (HOD), explains ASNC's concerns about artificial intelligence being used to automatically deny prior authorizations and prevent patients from accessing care.

ASNC and AMA push back against AI prior authorization denials

Suman Tandon, MD, a representative of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, explains her organization's concerns about artificial intelligence being used to automatically deny prior authorizations and prevent patients from accessing care.

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Physicians speak out against payers’ growing use of AI to deny imaging requests

Heart imaging specialists contend that the deployment of artificial intelligence "is making the issue of prior authorization worse, not better."