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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ACOs Needed 'Now,' Former CMS Admin Says

Spiraling healthcare costs make the immediate implementation of accountable care organizations (ACOs) a must, according to Mark McClellan, MD, former Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

California One Step Closer to Breast Density Results Law

Today, the California State Assembly Business and Professions Committee unanimously approved a bill that would require health care providers to inform women who undergo mammograms about their breast density.

Congressmen Seek Block of MedPAC Imaging Cuts

A bipartisan group of 61 members of Congress, led by Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA) of the House Small Business Committee, have sent a letter to congressional colleagues voicing objections to imaging cuts recommended by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) in its June

More Physicians To Leave Private Practice

An increase in the number of physicians leaving private practice for hospital employment is anticipated as the health care landscape continues to undergo change and the need for hospital/physician alignment accelerates, indicate two recent market reports.

Roat Takes Home RBMA Calhoun Award

Medical Management Professionals, Inc. (MMP), an Atlanta-based national firm provider of billing and practice management services to radiologists and imaging centers, has announced that Randal Roat, CHBME, its vice president of radiology services, received the Calhoun Award from the Radiology Business Management Association (RBMA) at the 2011

CMS Announces Patient Care Improvement Grants

Up to $500 million in Affordable Care Act (ACA) funding will be awarded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help hospitals and providers develop new programs, training, and monitoring initiatives aimed at improving patient care, the agency announced Wednesday.

McKesson To Acquire Portico Systems

In a move seemingly reflective of new directions in payment-bundling and risk-sharing among payors and providers, McKesson announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Portico Systems, a vendor of systems and software to health plans. The pending acquisition will allow McKesson to assemble a suite of products and services to

Uninsured Much Less Likely to Get Imaging Services, Report Reveals

In its fourth annual survey of United States and international health care consumers, released this week, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions found that among its U.S. survey respondents 47% of those with health insurance had an imaging exam or test in the last 12 months. Among those without health insurance, it was only 20 percent.

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Health Imaging
Nearly $800,000 settlement offered to family of man who died during MRI exam

The patient, who was being cared for in the ICU, was not accompanied or monitored by nursing staff during his exam, despite being sedated.

Cardiovascular Business
Global shortage of nuclear imaging isotopes may be over

The nuclear imaging isotope shortage of molybdenum-99 may be over now that the sidelined reactor is restarting. ASNC's president says PET and new SPECT technologies helped cardiac imaging labs better weather the storm.

Cardiovascular Business
‘A huge win’: CMS significantly increases Medicare payments for cardiac CT

CMS has more than doubled the CCTA payment rate from $175 to $357.13. The move, expected to have a significant impact on the utilization of cardiac CT, received immediate praise from imaging specialists.