Huge Effort and Extraordinary Results: Interventional Radiology’s Official Recognition

After countless hours and almost 10 years of Herculean effort from Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) members and the American Board of Radiology (ABR), the...

Quantifying Interventional Radiology’s Tangible Value

In recent years, interventional radiologists have had an easier time with the long-standing challenge of impressing their diagnostic colleagues with the intangible worth of...

The Lure and the Legend of Office-based Interventional Radiology

By the nature of their subspecialty, interventional radiologists are enamored of innovations that engender emerging minimally invasive therapies, and the 2011 annual meeting of the...

Outpatient IR Centers of Excellence: Trends in Practice Expansion

As radiology practices react to the impact of the DRA, some are tapping into the potential of interventional radiology to expand their outpatient services <...

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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