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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Ohio State physicians, faculty sign ‘no confidence’ letter about hospital CEO

Some 25 physicians and professors in the Ohio State University College of Medicine signed a letter criticizing Sheldon Retchin, MD, CEO of the OSU Wexner Medical Center, and his top executives. 

Texas Emergency Care Providers Rally at State Capitol for Increased Health Insurance Transparency, Oversight

Healthcare providers from across Texas gathered today for a press conference at the State Capitol to highlight current negative trends in health insurance and protest harmful business practices by insurers to pay less for emergency care and shift healthcare costs directly to consumers.

Anthem wants 60 more days to fight Cigna’s exit from merger

Anthem has requested more time from a Delaware court to salvage its $54 billion merger with Cigna, asking for a 60-day extension of a temporary injunction to block its would-be partner from opting out of the deal. 

Seattle hospital director: ACA replacement plan would cost his facility $637 million

In the debate over the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the Republican-sponsored plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), little has been said about its impact on hospital finances, but one Seattle hospital executive indicated it would be devastating. 

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Billing patients at chargemaster rates may be illegal

Charging patients at the list prices for procedures and services set by the hospital chargemaster isn’t allowed under contract law, according to a study published in American Journal of Managed Care.

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ACA, healthcare legislation hot topics at AHA meeting

The 2017 meeting of the American Hospital Association (AHA) led off with an unsurprising topic: the legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA).  

HHS Secretary makes questionable claims on AHCA

The Washington Post gave HHS Secretary Tom Price, MD, its worst fact-check rating for his defense of the Republican-sponsored plan to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA). 

TV more comforting than anesthesia for kids undergoing radiotherapy

Tuning into SpongeBob could be one method to reduce the number of anesthesia doses to children with cancer. A study, presented at the ESTRO 36 conference in Vienna, found projecting videos on the inside of a radiotherapy machine during treatment could be a less traumatic, more cost-efficient method of managing pain for these patients.

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AI in Healthcare
4 ways HHS plans to help shape a national strategy for healthcare AI

HHS has thought through the ways AI can and should become an integral part of healthcare, human services and public health. Last Friday—possibly just days ahead of seating a new secretary—the agency released a detailed plan for getting there from here.

Cardiovascular Business
FDA announces recall after Philips heart monitor software failed to send alerts—multiple deaths reported

Philips is recalling the software associated with its Mobile Cardiac Outpatient Telemetry devices after certain high-risk ECG events were never routed to trained cardiology technicians as intended. The issue, which lasted for two years, has been linked to more than 100 injuries. 

Cardiovascular Business
Why electrophysiologists needed a champion in Washington

Heart Rhythm Society President Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, MD, detailed a new advocacy group focused on improving EP reimbursements, patient care and access. “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu," he said.