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.

Joint Commission reports improvements in hospital safety, quality

Patient care at Joint Commission-accredited hospitals improved in 2015, according to the group’s annual hospital safety and quality report.

CMS long-term care rule blocked by federal judge

A rule banning nursing homes from requiring residents to sign contracts requiring pre-dispute arbitration has been temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

Recondo Technology Closes $16 million Funding Round to Support Exponential Growth to Power the Healthcare Revenue Cycle

Greenwood Village, CO—November 3, 2016—Recondo Technology, the market leader in cloud-based single-platform revenue cycle management solutions, announced today that it closed an additional $16 million in debt and capital funding to support and accelerate the company’s future growth curve. Lehmi Ventures led the round, with Bridge Capital serving as the debt partner.

Kindred getting out of nursing home business

Louisville, Kentucky-based Kindred Healthcare will be divesting its skilled nursing facilities to focus on more profitable business segments like long-term acute care and rehabilitation hospitals.

This election day, make sure sick patients know they can still vote

In 2012, only 56 percent of eligible voters made it to the polls. Illness and disability kept nearly 40 percent of non-voters making under $50,000 a year from casting a ballot. Make sure that doesn’t happen to your patients today.

CEO of NY’s public hospital system stepping down

NYC Health + Hospitals President and CEO Ram Raju, MD, will be giving up the post at the end of November, after nearly three years in charge.

Implement these 3 HR practices to save money, improve care

The talent of individual physicians can help save lives, but a truly successful hospital system has an HR department that understands how to empower and motivate physicians to provide quality care for patients. 

UPS expands clinical logistics business by acquiring Marken

United Parcel Service (UPS), the world’s largest package delivery company, is making a big push into the medical deliveries business.

Around the web

CMS finalized a significant policy change when it increased the Medicare payments hospitals receive for performing CCTA exams. What, exactly, does the update mean for cardiologists, billing specialists and other hospital employees?

Stryker, a global medtech company based out of Michigan, has kicked off 2025 with a bit of excitement. The company says Inari’s peripheral vascular portfolio is highly complementary to its own neurovascular portfolio.

RBMA President Peter Moffatt discusses declining reimbursement rates, recruiting challenges and the role of artificial intelligence in transforming the industry.