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.

Rite Aid seeking buyout as it files for bankruptcy—again
For the second time in less than two years, the struggling retail pharmacy chain has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, seeking buyers as it prepares for store closures.
Michigan sues PBMs, alleging unlawful collusion created ‘pharmacy deserts'
State Attorney General Dana Nessel is suing Express Scripts and Prime Therapeutics, accusing the two PBMs of manipulating rebate pricing, "crippling small, independent pharmacies and restricting access to lifesaving medications in the process."
Incidental findings evident in 70% of lung screening exams, but few reported
Despite this, consensus is lacking on whether radiologists should be required to report on findings that are not relevant to the exam.
Hospital transparency efforts fail to curb rising imaging prices
However, health policy efforts initiated in 2021 appear to be reducing variation in imaging costs, experts contend.
Whole-body MRI firm Ezra acquired by celebrity-backed longevity startup Function Health
Matt Damon, Pedro Pascal and Kevin Hart have invested in Function, which offers 100-plus lab tests to help its 200K members live "100 healthy years."

70% of burned out, depressed radiologists haven't sought help and don't plan to

The percentage of imaging experts who prefer to deal with distress on their own is higher than last year's Medscape survey.

Fewer struggling to pay medical bills—surprise or not—but millions still set back

Citing data previously published from the National Health Interview Survey, authors Amy Cha, PhD, MPH, and Robin Cohen, PhD, point out that major medical bills piling up for one member of a family tend to weaken the entire household.

ACR applauds equitable surprise medical billing legislation

The House Ways & Means Committee unveiled its proposal earlier this month, which includes a mediation process that does not exclude providers based on an established qualifying threshold.

FDA clears ‘world’s first’ portable, low-cost MRI following positive clinical research

“We’ve flipped the concept from having to get patients to the MRI to bringing the MRI to the patients,” said senior author of the preliminary research, Kevin Sheth, MD.

Yale accused of age discrimination for subjecting older radiologists, other docs to competency testing

The EEOC has filed suit against the prestigious university’s teaching hospital for forcing physicians over age 70 to take vision and neuropsychological exams.

Cardiologist in legal trouble after failing to diagnose patient’s fatal kidney cancer

A New York appeals court revived a lawsuit Feb. 11 involving a cardiologist who was accused of failing to diagnose a patient’s fatal kidney cancer nearly a decade and a half ago.

Radiologists gift $150,000 toward hospital system’s new emergency room

University Radiology is donating the funds to Hackensack Meridian Health and its foundation, which will go toward construction of a $39 million new ED in Old Bridge, New Jersey.

China ramps up AI surveillance in face of coronavirus outbreak

Big-name Chinese technology vendors have responded to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak by using more AI surveillance on the general public than ever before.

Management

Rite Aid seeking buyout as it files for bankruptcy—again

Michigan sues PBMs, alleging unlawful collusion created ‘pharmacy deserts'

Incidental findings evident in 70% of lung screening exams, but few reported

Hospital transparency efforts fail to curb rising imaging prices

Whole-body MRI firm Ezra acquired by celebrity-backed longevity startup Function Health