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.

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Americans recognize dangers of obesity, unsure how to lose weight

The obesity epidemic has become one of the largest health concerns for Americans, with 81 percent claiming it just as serious as cancer. Still, facing early death, heart disease and diabetes, most Americans are unsure of healthy, effective ways to lost weight.

Vocera Acquires Extension Healthcare

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 27, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Vocera Communications, Inc. (NYSE:VCRA), the leading healthcare communications company, today announced that it has acquired Extension Healthcare for approximately $55 million in an all-cash transaction. Based in Fort Wayne, Ind., Extension Healthcare is a leading provider of clinical, event-driven communication and workflow collaboration software for the hospital environment.

Health Care M&A Deal Volume and Value Slipped in Q3:2016, According to HealthCareMandA.com

NORWALK, CT – October 27, 2016 – Health care merger and acquisition activity slipped in the third quarter of 2016. Compared with the second quarter of 2016, deal volume fell 11%, to 369 transactions. Deal volume was also lower than in Q3:15, down 10% from the 411 transactions announced then. Combined spending in the third quarter totaled $48.0 billion, a decrease of 46% compared with the approximately $88.3 billion spent in the previous quarter, according to HealthCareMandA.com.

New results, requirements for CMS's hospital value-based purchasing program

Most hospitals will see an increase in their fiscal year 2017 Medicare Severity Diagnosis-Related Group (MS-DRG) payments under CMS’s Hospital Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) program.

3-month limit on short-term insurance finalized as ACA enrollment begins

Just ahead of the fourth open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) insurance marketplace, HHS finalized a rule aimed at improving the risk pool on the exchanges and keeping consumers away from plans that don’t comply with the ACA.

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.

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AI in Healthcare
Nat’l Academy of Medicine sets ‘priorities for action’ as healthcare mulls next moves with AI

Given the precarious excitement of the moment—or is it exciting precarity?—policymakers and healthcare leaders must set directives guiding not only what to do with AI but also when to do it. 

Cardiovascular Business
Biden chooses semaglutide for next round of Medicare price negotiations—Trump gets final say

The final list also included diabetes drugs sold by Boehringer Ingelheim and Merck. The first round of drug price negotiations reduced the Medicare prices for 10 popular drugs by up to 79%. 

AI in Healthcare
4 ways HHS plans to help shape a national strategy for healthcare AI

HHS has thought through the ways AI can and should become an integral part of healthcare, human services and public health. Last Friday—possibly just days ahead of seating a new secretary—the agency released a detailed plan for getting there from here.