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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Feds lower expectations for open enrollment period

The Department of Health & Human Services has lowered its prediction for the number of enrollees from 13 million to 9-9.9 million for coverage through state and federal exchanges for 2015, reports Modern Healthcare. 

Multi-year health insurance plans hold promise

Multi-year insurance products on health insurance exchanges could prompt insurers to invest in more services with long-term benefits. This in turn, would reduce healthcare costs and some of those savings could result in lower premiums for consumers, according to a Health Affairs blog written by a senior scientist and policy researcher at Rand Corp.

Supreme Court to hear new challenge to ACA

The Supreme Court has agreed to another challenge of the Affordable Care Act—and will determine how far the federal government can extend its program of subsidies to buyers of health insurance, according to SCOTUSblog, the official blog of the U.S. Supreme Court. 

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Good news for healthcare premiums

A study from the Urban Institute finds that healthcare premiums throughout the U.S. will remain flat or drop during 2015, reports The Hill.

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Quincy Medical Center set to close

In the largest Massachusetts hospital closure in a decade, Steward Health Care System announced the imminent closure of Quincy Medical Center, reports the Boston Globe.

Majority of CFOs at struggling hospitals expect to lose their jobs by 2016

Sixty-one percent of chief financial officers at self-identified struggling hospitals anticipate losing their jobs within two years, reports Becker’s Healthcare.

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Feds to require hospitalization coverage for large companies

The Obama administration is planning to close a loophole in the Affordable Care Act which allows larger companies to refuse to cover in-patient hospital stays in their insurance plans, an anonymous source told USA Today.

Thanks to ACA, health sector stocks boom

Hospitals and insurance companies are raking in profits thanks to the Affordable Care Act, reports CNBC.

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Cardiovascular Business
Cardiologist compensation still rising, especially in invasive and interventional cardiology

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.

Cardiovascular Business
FDA’s tirzepatide decision creates uncertainty for patients—and leads to a lawsuit

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. 

Cardiovascular Business
Cardiology groups cheer new bill that would improve access to Medicare claims data

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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