Cardiac Imagers: Pay Attention to Clinical Trials

The cardiac-imaging community, indeed any imaging community, should pay close attention to clinical trials. Why? The results of the trial will determine the rationale...

Radiology and the Heart

Cardiology and radiology: Are they two specialties working in tandem for optimal patient care or two opposing armies in a turf battle? The answer,...

The Road to Acceptance: CCTA for Chest Pain in the ED

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) could be radiology’s most notorious underperformer. As the number of CT detectors increased from one to 256 and beyond, as...

The CCTA Playbook: A Guide to Coding, Reimbursement, and Operations

A compendium of the business intelligence required to launch a CCTA service

In the United States, unspecified chest pain is the second...

CCTA Standards and Turf

Turf questions have always surrounded the provision and interpretation of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) studies. Who should read these studies? Cardiologists and radiologists are...

Adding a CCTA Program: Economic Benefits of Outsourcing

Adding a coronary CT angiography (CCTA) program to your emergency department can help save hundreds of thousands of dollars a year by reducing unnecessary...

ACR White Paper: CCTA Structured Reporting

A group of luminary practitioners of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) penned a white paper1 to guide readers of CCTA in structured reporting for the...

CCTA: Radiology Prepares

Though expertise and reimbursement lag, many radiology practices gear up to perform their share of a potential 20 million procedures a year

The...

Coronary MR Angiography: Can It Compete With Multidetector CT?

Just five years ago, the thought of cardiac cross-sectional imaging turned immediately toward the potential of MRI for evaluation of the heart. Equipment manufacturers...

The Role of CCTA in Primary Care

Primary care physicians are increasingly referring patients for coronary CT angiography (CCTA) to provide accurate diagnosis of coronary artery disease (CAD) and earlier disease...

CCTA: The Road to Acceptance

The advancement of imaging technology is invariably followed by a host of related challenges. Many of these challenges are questions raised by payors and...

Optimizing Coronary CTA Workflow: How We Do It

Coronary CT angiography (CCTA) provides an accurate evaluation of coronary-artery disease and coronary-artery anomalies, and it gives us the ability to evaluate the cardiac...

Share and Share Alike? Split Interpretations Pose a Challenge to Radiologists.

As if radiologists were not facing sufficient challenges of late, they now are seeing increasing interest from cardiologists seeking to promote the sharing of...

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Using Analytics to Achieve Strategic Goals: Quantum Imaging & Therapeutic Associates

For many years, hospitals and physician practices have engaged with payors in a little game we play in a free market society called “negotiation.” This game enables the players to use whatever tools and stratagems they possess to leverage as good a price possible for their services/business in an increasingly price-conscious marketplace. On the provider side, good means high, and on the payor side, good means low. Providers might negotiate from a position