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.

Hospitals managing COVID comeback without quashing regular business

Leaders of some large hospital systems are lately showing they’ve learned how to cope with wildly fluctuating strains on resources while keeping their doors open for profitable service lines.

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Decorated neuroradiologists express ‘concerns’ over peer Scott Atlas’ White House guidance during pandemic

The letter comes after a scathing Washington Post investigation, detailing how the Stanford senior fellow has allegedly pushed “junk science” to fight COVID-19. 

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Judges baffled over hospitals’ hesitance to share upfront imaging prices: ‘Why is that not doable?’

The American Hospital Association is arguing that it is unlawful for the feds to compel its members to publish negotiated rates reached with insurers.

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United States radiology practices record nearly 3.7M fewer CT exams than expected in 2020

During the pandemic’s worst points, providers logged roughly 38,000 fewer such scans in an average day, according to a new analysis. 

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Surveyed physicians up for hybrid healthcare, down on Medicare for All

U.S. physicians favor the idea of a two-tiered healthcare system, one in which a single-payer option peacefully coexists with private coverage. Their least favorite model? Single-payer Medicare for All.

Nearly all nursing homes are hurting, but should the for-profits get more free money?

Even after receiving $7.5 billion in federal COVID relief and billions more from the Paycheck Protection Program, nursing homes are still hurting financially. Should the field’s for-profit players have their hands out with the rest?

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Advocates applaud legislation that would improve coverage for peripheral artery disease screening

If signed into law, the bill would improve coverage for screening for both Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. 

Large swath of healthcare workforce likely to keep working past age 67

Almost half of individuals employed in healthcare expect to keep their noses to the grindstone into their late 60s if not beyond.