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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Medical Administrative Professionals, LLC Engages Zotec Partners in Exclusive New Revenue Cycle Management Agreement

INDIANAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zotec Partners (Zotec), the industry leader in radiology revenue cycle and practice management services, announces an exclusive revenue cycle management (RCM) agreement with Medical Administrative Professionals, LLC (MAP), the management services organization of Denver-based Diversified Radiology of Colorado, PC (DRC). DRC is a 55-radiologist practice that has undertaken billing in-house for several decades. In the new arrangement, MAP will employ Zotec’s RCM expertise, services and analytical tools to monitor data and contribute to the growth of the radiology practice.

Utah hospital breaks ground on three-year expansion project

Alta View Hospital in Sandy, Utah, broke ground April 13 on what will be the largest investment project in the operation’s history, with major clinical improvements schedule for the next three years.

Via Christi to conduct search for CEO, president after Korsmo steps down

Jeff Korsmo, president and CEO of Via Christi Health, has announced he has accepted a position with Essentia Health in Duluth, Minn.

AHIMA's IG pilot participants offer lessons learned

The healthcare organizations that began taking part in AHIMA’s information governance (IG) pilot program are ready to offer several best practices and critical success factors. 

South Dakota researchers aim to improve tobacco-free policies in healthcare facilities

Research from South Dakota State University has shown that healthcare facilities vary wildly in their efforts to maintain a tobacco-free environment.

FTC spars with NorthShore, Advocate in preliminary injunction for merger

The preliminary injunction hearing for a merger between NorthShore University HealthSystem and Advocate Health Care, two major hospital systems in the Chicago area, began last week with objections from U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Drug manufacturer ordered to pay $125 million for fraud

A federal judge in Boston ordered Warner Chilcott to pay $125 million to resolve criminal and civil claims related to healthcare fraud.

Alignment Healthcare names tech expert as new COO

Technology expert Jennifer “Jenna” Geiger has been hired as Alignment Healthcare’s first chief operating officer (COO), according to a release from the population health management company.

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