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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Woman taken to out-of-network hospital now faces bankruptcy

A Wisconsin woman is fighting off bankruptcy after spending 10 days in the hospital in a medical induced coma. The patient, taken by ambulance to a hospital outside of her covered network, could not alert the driver because she was incapacitated and clinically dead, according to United Press International.

Early praise for Healthcare.gov

Healthcare.gov opened for browsing over the weekend, and users are offering some early praise on the design improvements, reports Bloomberg Businessweek.  

Analysis of EMR data can pin down cases of undiagnosed diabetes

By applying simple algorithms to EMR data, researchers can identify cases of undiagnosed diabetes, according to a study published in CMAJ Open.

Thousands of Kaiser nurses plan 2-day strike

Thousands of nurses at Kaiser Permanente in Northern California plan to walk off the job amid heated contract negotiations, according to Napa Valley Register.

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.

Around the web

The tirzepatide shortage that first began in 2022 has been resolved. Drug companies distributing compounded versions of the popular drug now have two to three more months to distribute their remaining supply.

The 24 members of the House Task Force on AI—12 reps from each party—have posted a 253-page report detailing their bipartisan vision for encouraging innovation while minimizing risks. 

Merck sent Hansoh Pharma, a Chinese biopharmaceutical company, an upfront payment of $112 million to license a new investigational GLP-1 receptor agonist. There could be many more payments to come if certain milestones are met.