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.

Physicians would have to report medical device problems under new bill

A new bill in Congress aimed at changing the Food and Drug Administration’s medical device approval process would require physicians and their practices to report defects or issues with devices, while protecting doctors from being sued over those reports.

HHS proposes 3-month limit on short-term plans to strengthen ACA risk pool

A proposed rule from HHS would limit short-term individual health plans to three months without a chance to renew in an effort to keep healthier enrollees from leaving the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance marketplaces and limit the upward trend of exchange premiums.

House passes bill adjusting Medicare hospital policies despite $50M estimated cost

Legislation changing several Medicare policies most affecting hospitals, including exempting “mid-build” off-campus outpatient facilities from the site neutral payment provisions in last year’s budget, has advanced out of the House.

Editorial: EMR implementation is broken

With billions of dollars being invested by hospitals to implement EMR’s the technology should be running smoothly, but it’s actually the exact opposite. The transition from paper was meant to make healthcare faster and more efficient, but things haven’t improved with data being incomplete and inconsistent.

Study: Racial, gender pay gap exists among physicians

African-American male physicians earn substantially less than their white counterparts, while male doctors have higher incomes than females, according to a new study published in the BMJ.

CMS asked to overlook Medicare math errors that could cost Mass. hospitals $115M

To prevent Massachusetts hospitals from losing $115 million in Medicare funding over accounting mistakes at a single small hospital, Partners Healthcare is asking CMS to use corrected data to calculate reimbursements, even though the deadline for corrections has passed.

Healthy Interactions, MedCurrent collaborate on new end-to-end CDS technology for chronic care

Two health IT companies, Chicago-based Healthy Interactions and Toronto-based MedCurrent, have launched a new end-to-end clinical decision support (CDS) platform designed to manage chronic care conditions.

NIH to get $2B funding boost in spending bill

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) would receive an additional $2 billion in funding under a Senate appropriations bill, according to The Hill.

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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