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.

Moda Health exiting Alaska exchange in 2017

Only one insurer will be offering coverage on the health insurance exchange in Alaska with Moda Health's exit from the marketplace in 2017.

Study: Healthcare industry narrows diversity gap

The healthcare field is making headway in closing the diversity gap according to Witt/Kieffer's latest leadership diversity study.

New York City will pay $4.3M to settle Medicare fraud case

The U.S. Department of Justice had argued the city's fire department submitted millions of dollars in claims for unnecessary ambulance services between 2008 and 2012

Google given access to healthcare data of 1.6M patients

Artificial intelligence company DeepMind, owned by Google, has been given access to the healthcare data of 1.6 million patients from three hospitals, reports The Guardian.

DOJ: South Dakota sending thousands to nursing homes unnecessarily

The Department of Justice is accusing South Dakota of wrongly funneling people with disabilities like blindness and severe diabetes into nursing homes or long-term care facilities

Pelican State’s Medicaid expansion named ‘Healthy Louisiana’

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards unveiled a new name and website for the state’s Medicaid program.

Texas, CMS agree to extend Medicaid 1115 waiver through 2017

Waiver was set to expire in September after directing $17 billion in federal dollars and another $12 billion in local funding to hospitals and health providers in the state over the past five years.

CMS emphasizes flexibility in webinar on proposed MACRA rule

CMS officials went over the numerous criteria factoring into the two new reporting paths, along with how and when clinicians would be scored under the new system.

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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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