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.

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."
Private equity firm Nordic Capital invests in imaging research outfit
Minerva Imaging has experienced "rapid growth" in recent years amid rising demand for precision medicines, collecting 2024 revenue of $35 million.
CVS sued over alleged ‘political manipulation’ through mass text messages
A class-action lawsuit claims CVS Health sent text messages to customers and patients, inciting fear over a PBM regulation up for vote in Louisiana. Plaintiffs allege the incident violates state data privacy and political communication laws.
Johnson & Johnson MedTech faces threat of permanent injunction after losing antitrust case
After being ordered to pay $442 million in damages—a ruling the company has said it may appeal—Johnson & Johnson MedTech is now facing the possibility of a permanent injunction that could impact certain business practices. A hearing is scheduled for July.
Health data possibly exposed in 'sophisticated' cyberattack on Aflac
A “sophisticated cybercrime group” is being blamed for an attack on the network of the private insurer, which may have exposed social security numbers and protected health information. The incident is still being investigated.

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.

‘Eye-popping numbers’: 22% of surprise medical bills include a claim from a radiologist

University of Michigan researchers recently made this discovery in a new analysis of commercial claims data, highlighted Tuesday in JAMA.

More proof that US radiologists must abandon the ‘single-reader paradigm’

Results from a high-profile breast cancer screening program in Ireland are adding more ammunition to the argument that radiologists need help.

Management

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

Private equity firm Nordic Capital invests in imaging research outfit

CVS sued over alleged ‘political manipulation’ through mass text messages

Johnson & Johnson MedTech faces threat of permanent injunction after losing antitrust case

Health data possibly exposed in 'sophisticated' cyberattack on Aflac