What Imaging Leaders Should Know About Teamwork
by Curtis Kauffman-Pickelle
The following is not a trick question: What does the US Army’s legendary 82nd Airborne Division have in common with today’s medical-imaging…
Beyond the Blame Game
by Cheryl Proval
It is not accuracy of interpretations, or contrast-media administration, or wrong-site surgeries, or infection control in the MRI suite. No, the specialty’s…
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Extreme RIS: Breaking Down Communication Barriers
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Pam Elias RTR, CNMT Imaging Services Manager Redington-Fairview General Hospital
Brandon Groh RTR, CT PACS Administrator Redington-Fairview General Hospital
Fujifilm Medical Systems
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Advanced Visualization | Next-generation Architectures
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Keep Your Hospital Relationships Healthy: Strategies for Every Practice
Medical Management Professionals, Inc.
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RIS to the Rescue | Strategies for Driving Revenue, Productivity and Profitability
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Imaging as You like it... Medical Imager Caters to Physician Print Preferences
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Radiology and the MPFS: Implications and Impact
CMS released the 2011 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) in July, proposing myriad changes that CMS notes would result in a 6% payment cut for radiology services. That reduction doesn’t include the impact of the 23% cut that will take place on December 1, when this year’s temporary 2.2% payment update expires—or the additional 6.1% cut resulting from the 2011 sustainable growth rate (SGR) calculations, according to CMS. The 2011 proposal also begins implementing provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Health Reform’s Impact on Imaging
Plenty remains unknowable about the incipient impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), but the act does stand to affect imaging providers, specifically through its compliance, fraud, and payment provisions, many of which have already taken effect or will take effect in the near future.
A Health-reform Primer for Providers
Tie your laces and get into the game, because reform, as viewed by the president of Kaiser Permanente Southern California, will initiate a period of great experimentation in health-care delivery.
Can Decision Support Supplant Precertification?
Radiology decision support could qualify as meaningful use
Finger in the Wind
Physicians are in a real bind as fee-for-service reimbursement falls under attack and alternative payment methods (such as bundling and capitation) gain traction in Washington, DC. As of June 18, Medicare Part B claims were being processed with the 21.3% cut mandated by the sustainable growth rate’s formula, and House Democrats demanded legislation on jobs before they would pass the Senate bill to reverse the cut.
A Step-by-step Guide to Implementing PQRI
The 2006 Tax Relief and Health Care Act required the establishment of a physician quality reporting system.
New Requirements for Documenting Imaging Orders
CMS published an interim final rule (with a comment period) on May 5, implementing several changes to the Medicare and Medicaid programs mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
Capitation: An Inevitability Waiting to Happen
The author argues that health care (in general) and imaging (specifically) are on a 10-year track to capitation
When the Invisible Hand Meets an Immovable Object
In a coincidence worth noting, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, the year that our nation-to-be declared its independence from what was then the Kingdom of Great Britain.
