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.

3 things to know: HHS report measures progress toward value-based care

Healthcare is on its way to achieving value-based care goals, according to a new report from HHS’s Health Care Payment Learning and Action Network (LAN).

Aetna CEO: ACA return possible, but not until 2019

Aetna could return to some of the Affordable Care Act exchanges it left in 2017, but not until changes are made to the market by Congress and federal regulators.

3D printer produces 'heart on a chip'

You may love your computer or your phone, but can a bunch of circuits and wires really love you back? Well, probably not—but Harvard University researchers have used 3D printing to produce a heart on a computer chip.

Can exoskeletons speed recovery from stroke, spinal cord injuries?

Recent work has shown the potential for robotics to be implemented in the rehabilitation of stroke and spinal cord injury patients. Researchers have developed a robotic exoskeleton that can help in training to advance gait rehabilitation and strengthen muscles.

Catholic Health Initiatives, Dignity Health exploring merger

Nonprofit health systems Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health have “signed a non-binding letter of intent” to merge, which could create one of the largest nonprofit hospital chains by revenue in the U.S.

CMS opens more alternative payment models for MACRA bonus

CMS is offering more paths for practices and payers to earn incentive payments under the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).

One nurse's goal: Making small print a big deal

More than 1.3 million Americans fall victim to medication errors—and, for one Ohio nurse, it's a case of enough is enough. Janeen Jones, BSN, RN, has developed the MagniMed line of lighted magnification systems to make small print on medication labels easier to read.

PhRMA raises dues for drug companies

Drug companies will collectively pay an extra $100 million in annual membership dues to industry group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA).

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.