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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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CABG beats PCI for patients with complex disease over long haul

Beyond five years, CABG was more cost effective than PCI using drug-eluting stents (DES-PCI) for treating patients with complex coronary artery disease (CAD), according to a study published online Aug. 1 in Circulation. 

Stripped-down TAVR approach shaves costs for hospitals

Centers may be able to trim thousands of dollars off the cost of a transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) procedure without compromising care using a minimalist approach, according to a recently published study. Only experienced facilities should adopt this strategy, though, the lead author told Cardiovascular Business.

Brouhaha over federal funding for medical training

A report from the Institute of Medicine that recommended redistributing funding for medical graduate education drew the ire of some professional societies and associations in a story by NPR.

As is, readmissions penalty may push some hospitals over brink

Failing to adjust measures such as Medicare’s readmissions reduction program for sociodemographic factors will put already financially stressed safety net hospitals at risk and worsen healthcare disparities, according to an editorial published online July 22 in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

How reducing physician pay ultimately bloats costs

“There is no more wasteful entity in medicine than a rushed doctor,” writes cardiologist Sandeep Jauhur, MD, in an opinion piece in the New York Times. Jauhur, director of the heart failure program at the North Shore-Long Island Health System in New York, explains how cutting physician pay leads to more downstream costs.

AHA to insurers: Home BP monitoring saves you money

Medicare and private insurers take note: Home blood pressure (BP) monitoring for hypertension is cost effective. So cover it, the American Heart Association (AHA) advocates. 

Follow-up costs outweigh benefits for nodule findings on CCTA

Follow-up of incidental findings of pulmonary nodules (PN) during coronary CT angiography (CCTA) reduces deaths from lung cancer but at the price of increased downstream testing, making the practice of dubious value, researchers reported online July 11 in Circulation.

Hospital saves $1.25M by nixing excess cardiac biomarker testing

An intervention designed to eliminate unneeded cardiac biomarker testing for acute coronary syndrome saved $1.25 million in one year at one hospital, according to a study published online June 28 in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.

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Use of AI opportunistic screening in CT for cardiovascular disease

Ron Blankstein, MD, professor of radiology, Harvard Medical School, explains the use of artificial intelligence to detect heart disease in non-cardiac CT exams.

Health Imaging
New imaging protocols proposed to curb rise of cardiovascular infections

Eleven medical societies have signed on to a consensus statement aimed at standardizing imaging for suspected cardiovascular infections.