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.

Nationwide Children’s Hospital joins TriNetX

To help create clinical trials, Nationwide Children’s Hospital, pediatric hospital Columbus, Ohio, has signed an agreement to join TriNetX, a software company in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 

Medicaid expansion in New York now covers transgender healthcare

Youths in New York are now covered by Medicaid to receive gender-transition care, according to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal.

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Adventist promotes CFO/COO Terry Shaw to president/CEO

Terry Shaw will be Adventist Health System’s president and CEO effective immediately, the company announced Dec. 8.

FDA commissioner candidate drawing backlash

The next head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could be a Silicon Valley investor with no medical background and some controversial views about drug approvals.

Maryland co-op suspended from individual market

Evergreen Health Cooperative won’t be able to issue or renew plans for 2017 until regulators decide whether it can convert into a for-profit insurer.

CMS announces two new models for testing shared decision-making

CMS is asking for applications to test two different approaches to shared decision-making: one for accountable care organizations (ACOs) and another for care outside of office visits.  

Competition opens for wearables capable of detecting blood-alcohol levels

The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism is holding a competition to develop technology for wearable devices to measure blood-alcohol levels in real time. The first-place prototype winners will be awarded $200,000, with $100,000 going to second place.

What’s working against ACA repeal

The death of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has looked all but certain since the election of Donald Trump. Debate has focused on how and when, not if, the law would be rolled back, but one Democratic healthcare lobbyist is offering a different scenario.

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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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