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.

DOJ halts enforcement of updated Mental Health Parity Act
A Biden-era update to the law would require private insurers to update their networks to ensure patients have access to mental and behavioral health services, with those services reimbursed in a manner similar to physical care.
It may not be easy, but it changes lives: Reframing myths of healthcare leadership
Leadership is not easy, but it is worth doing. According to one seasoned healthcare executive, the world needs more physicians to move into leadership positions.
Epic sued over alleged 'scheme to destroy' managed care company
CureIS, a company that supports healthcare providers who take Medicaid and Medicare, is accusing the EHR leader of data blocking and other anti-competitive practices that violate state and federal laws.
First-of-its-kind framework monitors real-time performance of radiology AI tools
The new framework offers organizations real-time, detailed assessments of how algorithms that have been implemented into workflows are impacting efficiency and outcomes.
Cardiology groups among the many voices asking Congress not to cut Medicaid
More than 40 U.S. healthcare organizations are urging Congress not to make sweeping Medicaid cuts that could result in approximately 7.6 million Americans losing health insurance.

4 forces favoring, 5 working against Biden’s wish to lower Medicare eligibility age

President-elect Joe Biden wants to drop Medicare’s eligibility age to 60. If he succeeds, the move might bring in well more than 20 million new enrollees. What are the odds he’ll plant that piece of a potentially sweeping healthcare agenda?

Delaware cardiology practice to pay $500K to resolve fraud allegations

The alleged wrongdoings, reported by a whistleblower, occurred from April 2014 to March 2020.

Private radiology practices band together to raise $800,000 for imaging research

Strategic Radiology said the funds will go toward RSNA’s Research and Education Foundation, underwriting 20 annual grant opportunities.

Life sciences going all in with AI, with many companies spending upwards of $50M—and counting

The COVID crisis will spur leaders of life sciences companies around the world to focus on longstanding pain points that AI could help alleviate. And the execs are looking to put their money where their responses are.

Having a patient’s detailed clinical history improves radiologists’ diagnostic imaging interpretation

Accessing such info prior to reading scans is debated among medical circles, amid concerns that it could bias physicians.

American Medical Association releases new CPT codes to report COVID-19 vaccinations

AMA said it’s rolling out this info before any drug is available so that practices can prepare their EHRs ahead of time.

Physicians push Congress to delay imaging Appropriate Use Criteria Program indefinitely

Dozens of medical societies signed the request, addressed to the leaders of three key congressional committees.

3 recent notable approvals of medical AI

Along with AI, this ongoing list includes regulatory clearances of virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing and other emerging technologies targeted for healthcare.

Management

DOJ halts enforcement of updated Mental Health Parity Act

It may not be easy, but it changes lives: Reframing myths of healthcare leadership

Epic sued over alleged 'scheme to destroy' managed care company

First-of-its-kind framework monitors real-time performance of radiology AI tools

Cardiology groups among the many voices asking Congress not to cut Medicaid