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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Analysis: $1.4B could have gone to better uses than discarded Medicare drugs

The authors suggest requiring drugmakers, hospitals and doctors to refund CMS and/or making pharma companies right-size drug containers.

Radiologists, healthcare workers are sick of praise, they’re looking for more pay

One imaging physician with the National Health Service said the speciality comes into contact with all COVID-19 patients and that the government has forgotten about workers such as herself.

Skyrocketing use of emergency brain imaging is out of step with overall ED trends

The findings raise questions about imaging overutilization, Emory University radiology experts wrote in JACR. 

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Emergency abdominal CT scans decrease markedly during the pandemic, while prognoses worsen

The results, noted researchers with the universities of Toronto and Ottawa, could have important implications for future COVID-19 outbreaks.  

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Radiology firm Alliance Healthcare Services could fetch upward of $400M in potential sale

The California-based company provides a range of services that include imaging joint ventures, help with center acquisitions, and outsourced radiology assistance for hospitals.  

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Insurer wants radiology practice’s class-action suit tossed: ‘COVID-19 damages lungs, not property’

It was back in April that Alliance Radiology first sued Continental Casualty Co., claiming it had lost business as leaders looked to comply with state orders. 

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Almost half of physicians believe the COVID crisis won’t cool off until June 2021

That’s according to the latest every-other-year survey out of the Physicians Foundation, released Tuesday. 

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Will the COVID crisis rouse health execs from pop-health procrastination?

Nearly 95% of around 500 healthcare executives working for provider organizations believe concentrating on population health is key to ensuring long-term success. But only a small slice of them have been turning intentions into actions.