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.

Hospital costs from Orlando nightclub shooting could top $1 million

Based on the average costs incurred by gunshot victims, the 56 people brought to hospitals after being injured in the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, could rack up a total of $1 million in medical bills, reported Kaiser Health News.

Cantel acquires Accutron in midst of CEO turnover

Cantel Medical, a company that delivers infection prevention products and services, has acquired Accutron, a manufacturer of nitrous oxide delivery systems and single-use nasal masks.

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CMS keeps greater overpayment reduction in final hospital inpatient rule

In what’s being called a “mixed bag” for hospitals, CMS finalized two adjustments in its Medicare inpatient payment system update for fiscal year 2017, which, overall, increases reimbursements for acute care hospitals by 0.95 percent.

Survey asks seriously ill patients: ‘What’s worse than death?’

Bowel and bladder incontinence was described as equal to or worse than death by a majority of seriously ill patients participating in a survey published in JAMA.

Abbotts Alinity aims to make comprehensive diagnostics systems

Many diagnostic testing machines are only compatible with products of the same brand, but Abbott hopes to change that with the introduction of its new family of Alinity products.

2 more ACA co-ops sue over risk adjustment while judge orders Evergreen to pay up

HHS is now facing lawsuits from three health insurance co-ops set up under the Affordable Care Act, but the organization won a small victory when a federal judge ordered an insurer to make a $24 million risk adjustment payment.

Google partner and GlaxoSmithKline to join $700 million forces

Two of the world’s biggest tech and drug companies are joining forces to found an entirely new company called Galvani Bioelectrics based on bioelectronics research, according to Forbes. 

Aetna reverses exchange expansion plans, sells Medicare Advantage assets

Aetna won’t be expanding its offerings on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces after its second quarter earnings report projected it would lose more than $300 million on its exchange business.

Around the web

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.

Mark Isenberg, executive vice president of Zotec Partners, discusses key developments that will reshape the specialty this year.