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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$13.4 million awarded to test new children’s quality measures

Six grantees will receive a total $13.4 million in federal funding over four years to test and implement new pediatric quality measures.

House Republicans to CMS: Bundled payments shouldn’t be mandatory

Some 179 members of Congress have accused CMS of overstepping its authority in making bundled payment models, like one for cardiac episodes, mandatory without getting their approval.

California enacts new laws on nurse staffing, balance billing

A flurry of legislative activity in California in September included several new laws that will impact healthcare in the state.

Integrated systems, hospitals losing more money than private practices

Integrated health systems posted operating losses of approximately $210,000 per physician in 2015 compared to $14,000 per physician in private practices, according to a survey from the American Medical Group Management Association (AGMA), with hospitals' medical practice subsidiaries losing $250,000 per physician. 

CMS awards $347 million to hospitals in new safety, quality initiative

CMS has announced 16 organizations receiving a total of $347 million in grants in its new Hospital Improvement and Innovation Networks (HIINs) program. 

Not-for-profit hospitals improved financially in 2015—but analysts say it won’t last

The operating performance for not-for-profit hospitals improved “across the board” in fiscal year 2015, according to Fitch Ratings, but those figures are expected to drop off in 2016 and 2017 thanks to changes in CMS reimbursement.

Research thwarted by unreliable antibodies

More than 100 scientists met in California to find a solution to the increasingly research-thwarting problem of unreliable antibodies, according to NPR. 

3 things to know about CMS’s final long-term care rule

CMS has finalized its rule updating requirements for long-term care facilities participating in Medicare and Medicaid, the first such update since 1991.

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Cardiovascular Business
Boston Scientific enters renal denervation market with acquisition worth up to $540M

Boston Scientific has announced another significant M&A deal, scooping up an Israeli medtech company focused on RDN technology. 

Radiology Business
Shift toward imaging outside the hospital could save billions

Harvard’s David A. Rosman, MD, MBA, explains how moving imaging outside of hospitals could save billions of dollars for U.S. healthcare.

Cardiovascular Business
FDA announces catheter recall for Johnson & Johnson PFA system due to stroke risk

The recall comes after approximately 3% of patients treated with the device during the early stages of its U.S. rollout experienced a stroke or transient ischemic attack following surgery. The expected stroke rate is closer to 1%, the FDA explained.