Imaging’s 2013 Merger/Acquisition Outlook: Rounding the Bend

Following several years of fast-paced merger/acquisition activity, the imaging market is poised to turn a corner in 2013, according to valuation experts Elliott Jeter,...

Correlating Industry Trends With Imaging-center Value

While consideration of the individual facts, circumstances, and local competitive position of each subject imaging center is integral to an accurate business-valuation analysis, a...

Imaging-technology Deployment in the Post-DRA Era

Regents...

Proposed CMS Changes to the Cost-of-capital Assumption: Analysis

For 2012, CMS proposed a reduction in the cost-of-capital (or interest-rate) assumption used in the development of the cost-of-equipment estimates that are included in the...

Monopoly Money

You know how good it feels. You finally did the right trade and now own Boardwalk and Park Place. Everyone who has the misfortune...

RBMA Spring Summit Roundtable: Imaging and the IHN

On May 22, “Imaging and Accountability: Imaging’s Role in the Integrated Health Network” was presented at the RBMA 2012 Radiology Summit in Orlando, Florida. This...

What Payors Want From Radiology

What, exactly, do patients, employers, and insurers want from radiology? All too frequently, the answer is more expertise, at a lower price.

88 New ACOs

Physician groups figure prominently among 88 new accountable-care organizations (ACOs) added to the Medicare Shared Savings Program’s participants on July 1, 2012. With the latest announcement...

Shapeshifting in the Era of Health-care Reform

Engage in scenario planning to prepare for the changes ahead, Frank Lexa, MD, MBA, says. Lexa identifies six incontrovertible challenges that drove the adoption...

Image Gently Responds to the FDA

One of the leaders driving low-dose, high-quality pediatric imaging is the multisociety advocacy group Image Gently®. When the FDA¹ issued a draft guidance...

Summer Reverie and Olympic Dreams

August is the sweetest month. The Pacific Ocean is finally warm enough to swim in, the tomatoes are ripening faster than I can eat...

Practices Adapt at the Expense of Political Advocacy

Readers of this journal tend to be interested in the business of radiology. We recognize the priority of having efficient and effective practices, whatever...

Accomodating Imaging Volume Under Health-care Reform

Regents...

Waste Not, Want Not: Inside the Virginia Mason Production System

A decade ago, the executive team of Virginia Mason Hospital and Medical Center (VMHMC) in Seattle, Washington, flew to Japan for training in the...

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Appropriateness and the ACO: How Radiology Can Position Itself to Lead

The Growth Paradox: How Should Radiologists’ Behavior Be Rewarded?

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

From Quality to Outcomes: Deploying Clinical Analytics

Radiology’s ACO Play: Get in the Game—Now

Radiology’s Next Move: Bigger Data

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Forecasting Imaging Use Under Health-care Reform

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For January through June 2011, one-third of people in the United States were members of families having difficulties paying for medical care, according to a...

CT and MRI: Regional Variations in Utilization and Reimbursement

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Attestation for stage 1 meaningful use is underway in radiology, and expectations are rising about the ability of IT to reduce cost and increase quality...

The Radiology Staffing Market, Temporary and Permanent

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Tilting toward RSNA and entering the home stretch of 2011, I haven’t had a lot of time to reflect on the year, but I...

Imaging’s 2013 Merger/Acquisition Outlook: Rounding the Bend

Correlating Industry Trends With Imaging-center Value

Imaging-technology Deployment in the Post-DRA Era

Proposed CMS Changes to the Cost-of-capital Assumption: Analysis

Monopoly Money

RBMA Spring Summit Roundtable: Imaging and the IHN

What Payors Want From Radiology

Shapeshifting in the Era of Health-care Reform

Image Gently Responds to the FDA

Summer Reverie and Olympic Dreams

Practices Adapt at the Expense of Political Advocacy

Accomodating Imaging Volume Under Health-care Reform

Waste Not, Want Not: Inside the Virginia Mason Production System

Appropriateness and the ACO: How Radiology Can Position Itself to Lead

The Growth Paradox: How Should Radiologists’ Behavior Be Rewarded?

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

Perspectives on Quality

The Jig Is Up

The Top Five Medical-imaging IT Projects of 2012

The MPPR and the –59 Modifier: Buyer, Beware

Putting Lung-cancer Screening Through the Actuarial Wringer

Massachusetts and Health-care Reform: The Radiology Experience

Forecasting Imaging Use Under Health-care Reform

MU2: Value Proposition for Radiology

CT Dose Reporting in California

Price Disparity + Price Transparency=Imaging-market Turmoil

CT and MRI: Regional Variations in Utilization and Reimbursement

The Radiology Staffing Market, Temporary and Permanent

ACOs: A Concept in Motion