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.

AbbVie agrees to four collaborations working to find therapies in oncology, immunology

To find new therapies for a number of diseases, AbbVie is participating in four collaborations and investments with healthcare innovators to develop early-stage research in key therapeutic areas like oncology and immunology. 

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Obama calls ACA repeal plan ‘reckless’ in NEJM article

President Barack Obama warned against repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in a New England Journal of Medicine article, saying without a replacement ready to take its place, the result “could slowly bleed the healthcare system that all of us depend on.”

How insurance markets could survive an ACA repeal

Supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) have warned repealing the law could “unravel” the individual and small group insurance markets within months, but subsidies may be able to stabilize health plans in the short-term.

AristaMD Partners with San Mateo Medical Center on Customized Clinical Workup Checklist and eConsult Platform

Platform Increases Efficiency in Specialist Referral Process and Lowers Cost

Surgical Care Affiliates being sold to UnitedHealth’s Optum for $2.3 billion

Wakefield, Massachusetts-based Optum, owned by UnitedHealth, has agreed to a $2.3 billion cash and stock deal to buy Surgical Care Affiliates (SCA) and its 190 surgical hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers.

Seeing the future? 9 predictions for 2017

A Forbes article by Reenita Das takes a look at healthcare technology. Whether its connecting patients to physicians near or far, reconstructing the foundation of healthcare or the introduction of robots, Das believes this year see the pros outweighing the cons.

AMGA Welcomes New Members to Board of Directors

AMGA, an association representing medical groups and integrated systems of care, today announced the addition of three new members to its Board of Directors, beginning their tenure in January 2017. Joining the AMGA Board are the following:

Specialty drugs tripled Part D catastrophic coverage spending in 5 years

Between 2010 and 2015, payments for Medicare Part D catastrophic coverage tripled to $33 billion, thanks to increased prices for drugs, according to a report from HHS’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

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Updated compensation data includes good news for multiple subspecialties. The new report also examines private equity's impact on employment models and how much male cardiologists earn compared to females.

When drugs are on the FDA’s shortage list, outsourcing facilities can produce their own compounded versions. When the FDA removed tirzepatide from that list with no warning, it created a considerable amount of chaos both behind the scenes and in pharmacies all over the country. 

If passed, this bill would help clinician-led clinical registries explore Medicare data for research purposes. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and American College of Cardiology both shared public support for the bipartisan legislation. 

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