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.

The debate over delicensing anti-vaccination physicians

Vaccination advocates and groups that claim immunizations can be harmful have found something new to fight over: an Orange County, California, pediatrician’s medical license.

Obama meets with exchange insurers ahead of open enrollment

President Barack Obama has asked for insurers to step up their efforts to enroll younger, healthier customers on the Affordable Care Act’s insurance exchanges when open enrollment begins in November.

AdvantageCare Physicians Appoints New President and Chief Medical Officer

NEW YORK, Sept. 13, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- AdvantageCare Physicians (ACPNY), one of the largest multispecialty practices in the New York metropolitan area and partner, EmblemHealth, announced today the appointment of Navarra Rodriguez, M.D. to the position of its President and Chief Medical Officer (CMO) at ACPNY and Officer of EmblemHealth. As President and CMO of ACPNY, Dr. Rodriguez will oversee all medical leadership and health improvement activities for the practice.

Productivity growth may define hospitals’ financial future

How much hospitals can improve their productivity in the next decade may be the key to keeping profit margins positive, according to an analysis from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

CMS requires new disaster preparedness standards for healthcare providers

CMS is planning to publish a new set of regulations Sept. 16 that require healthcare providers to comply with new disaster preparedness guidelines. 

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Industry groups applaud MACRA ‘pick your pace’ options

CMS is drawing near unanimous praise from medical associations for allowing greater flexibility for providers to comply with the payment reforms in the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).

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CMS: No risk corridor funding for 2015

Insurers requesting risk corridor payments to cover losses on the exchanges in 2015 won’t get any money, with CMS saying all the funding available will be put toward the existing shortfall for the 2014 benefit year.

3M acquires Semfinder to help with rollout of EMR platforms

As conglomerate manufacturing company 3M continues to build up its healthcare records and population analytics platforms, it has acquired Semfinder, a Switzerland-based medical coding technology company.

Around the web

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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