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.

Remote care increases freedom of those with chronic diseases

People with chronic diseases are often consumed with the management of their conditions, but technological advancements have allowed for people to minimize the impact of self-monitoring and decrease the constant worry associated with their health.

Hospital pension case to be heard before U.S. Supreme Court

The nation’s highest court has agreed to take up three cases where employees of religious-affiliated hospital systems say funding and reporting requirements for pensions should be enforced.

Banner Urgent Care Selects Zotec Partners as Exclusive Revenue Cycle Management Provider

INDIANAPOLIS (December 5, 2016) – Zotec Partners (Zotec), an industry leader in physician billing and practice management services for health systems and hospital-based physician groups, announces an exclusive revenue cycle management (RCM) agreement with Arizona-based Banner Urgent Care (BUC). BUC is comprised of 32 urgent care facilities within Banner Health, one of the largest, nonprofit health care systems in the country managing 29 acute-care hospitals, the Banner Health Network and Banner Medical Group, and also including skilled nursing and rehabilitation centers, outpatient surgery centers and an array of other services.

‘He wants to win': How HHS nominee Tom Price will lead ACA repeal debate

U.S. Rep. Tom Price, MD, R-Georgia, is now poised to get the job the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports he’s always wanted: Secretary of HHS. With it, he’ll bring what former colleagues call a fierce work ethic and an “inflexible” nature on major issues like repealing the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

CMS reports ‘modest’ 2015 expenditures

A new report from CMS today shows healthcare spending in 2015 was modest compared to years before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed.

HIV self-test gives results in minutes

bioLytical Laboratories, producers of rapid infectious disease test, have released its HIV self-tests in the United Kingdom. The HIV self-test is able to provide results in minutes and is over 99 percent accurate.

Quantum Radiology's Mobile Breast Center brings breast screens to you

For millions of women, an annual mammogram can mean taking the day off work or creating other difficulties in daily life, but Quantum Radiology is easing such burdens by bringing mammography to women with its Mobile Breast Center (MBC).

6 things to know about AHA’s letter to Trump

The American Hospital Association (AHA) laid out some specific policy priorities for hospitals in a letter to President-elect Donald Trump, offering clues to where their lobbying efforts will focused once Trump takes office.

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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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