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.

Therap’s claims, billing systems join electronic medicaid billing system

Therap, providers of documentation and electronic billing services, has been integrated with Ohio disability providers to implement the new Flat File feature, giving providers the ability to upload 837 claims to the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities eMBS portal.

CMS finalizes smaller drop in pay for Medicare home health

Home health agencies will receive $130 million less in Medicare reimbursements for 2017, the final year of reductions meant to recoup overpayments dating back to 2000.

Advocate, NorthShore merger halted by appeals court

A federal appeals court sided with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) against the proposed merger of two Illinois hospital chains, Advocate Health Care and NorthShore University Health System, reversing a lower court’s decision that denied the FTC a preliminary injunction.

20 hospitals get failing safety grade from Leapfrog

New measures did little to change the grade distribution in the Leapfrog Group’s fall 2016 Hospital Safety Scores report.

More money, better outcomes don't equate in cancer treatment

Spending more means getting a better quality, right? According to a study analyzing the cost of cancer care and its outcomes shows that expensive is not always the most effective. 

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5 recommendations to reduce, prevent opioid overdoses

Graduate students at the University of Pittsburgh have compiled a list of recommendations to prevent opioid overdoses that is being presented at the American Public Health Association 2016 Annual Meeting & Exposition in Denver.

Premium assistance programs lead to fights between insurers, hospitals

Programs that help customers on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace buy insurance are being criticized by insurers as they pull out of the exchanges.

U.S. Supreme Court to take up nursing home arbitration case

The validity of arbitration clauses in nursing home residency agreements will be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, as justices have agreed to hear a case against two Kentucky facilities.

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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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