Inside the Hospital–Radiology Contract of the Future

Contracts between hospitals and radiology groups are evolving to reflect the shifting requirements of health care—and both parties can expect to continue to...

Four Deal-breakers in Hospital Imaging Transactions and How to Avoid Them

When the hospital is the buying party in an imaging joint venture, there are four potential issues that could terminate the transaction, all of...

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

All over the country, radiology practices are merging, consolidating, and forming networks in order to grow in size and, in theory, negotiate from a...

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

Clinical analytics for radiology can play a critical strategic role in practice development and growth, but only if the approach to aggregating and sharing...

Perspectives on Quality

In the last issue of RadAnalytics, I wrote about productivity and efficiency, with an...

Is the Small Practice Dead?

With the rapid changes in health care, radiology (like other specialties) has had to adapt to survive. Smaller practices have been acquired or consolidated...

Patient-friendly Imaging: Digital Workflow at Marshfield Family Clinic

On any given day, Mickie Burrell, medical assistant at the Marshfield Family Clinic in Missouri, has her hands full, as do her fellow staff...

Enterprise Imaging and the Radiology Practice: Mecklenburg Radiology Associates

Mecklenburg Radiology Associates (MRA), Charlotte, North Carolina, is the oldest continually operating radiology group in the state; its 40 radiologists and 10 physician assistants serve Novant...

Inevitable Evolution

When Barry D. Pressman, MD, FACR, began his radiology career, Nixon was resigning from the White House and neuroradiology was just developing as a...

The Future of the Practice of Radiology

I have great optimism for the survival of the practice of radiology. I believe that many groups will thrive, and that there is the...

The Tricky Art of Leadership Succession: Who Wants the Ball?

It is a well-accepted axiom in business that to be successful, a leader must want to lead. The truth, though, is that business entities...

Pay and Partnership in Radiology Practices

In the past, many radiology private practices used a fairly traditional (and extended) track leading to full partnership in the practice. Now, however, many...

Measuring Performance in Radiology

Number crunchers at radiology practices might occasionally lose sleep over the complex nature of performance assessment, but that’s nothing, compared with the sleepless...

Charting the Leadership Course: Tales From the High Seas

What qualities make a radiology leader? What experiences best prepare leaders to assume their roles? How do leaders know whether they are performing to...

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

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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

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

Radiology’s Next Move: Bigger Data

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Steve Smith
It Takes Will to Fight Commoditization

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When Bigger Isn’t Better

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The Jig is Up

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Improving Radiology for Radiologists: Thomas Pope, MD

Thomas Pope, MD, a musculoskeletal MRI and breast-imaging specialist with Radisphere National Radiology Group (Beachwood, Ohio), began his career in subspecialty imaging before it...

The Radiology MBA

A thought occurred to me recently, as I worked with a rather large and very successful radiology practice: Radiologists in private practice who have...

Right-brain Radiology

You might recall that a few years ago, in this column, I extolled the virtues of a unique book by Daniel Pink called A...

Business 101: Communication and Information Sharing in Radiology

This article is the final installment in a four-part series on applying basic business concepts to radiology. To read the first installment, click Facing the Revolution

It can certainly be said that the past four years have not been the best of times for radiology practice managers. Since the enactment...

Driven by Data: Instinct Takes a Back Seat to Metrics

In early 2009, physician and business leaders of Advanced Medical Imaging Consultants, PC, Fort Collins, Colorado, found themselves wrestling with the decision of whether to...

Privileges at Stake in IR Lawsuit

The attorney for six interventional radiologists who have been barred, under an exclusivity contract, from practicing at three Sutter Health hospitals in the greater...

Business 101: Goal Execution for Radiology

This article is the third installment in a four-part series on applying basic business concepts to radiology. To read the first installment, Turbulent Waters

The current environment in radiology is changing quickly—and the pace of change is accelerating. Radiologists are accustomed to change. In fact, some would...

From Partner to Employee: The Captive Radiology Practice

Terry Owen is senior vice president of Florida Hospital in Orlando. He says, “We think the old days of fee for service, the high-water...

CEO Roundtable: Practice–Hospital Relations

Leading an independent radiology practice has never been more challenging. Congress has escalated the timetable for reductions to the outpatient-imaging technical component to help...

Life After Sutter

When news spread that Sutter Health (Sacramento, California) planned to cut loose its long-time radiology provider in Sacramento in favor of a captive model,...

Tapping the Rural Market: A User’s Guide

Gabe Graham, CPA

The emergence of PACS has given practices a chance to expand their business and boost revenue by tapping the rural hospital...

The Tortoise and the Stack Burner

You know the tale. In the end, the steady pace of the tortoise won out over the supreme confidence and sheer speed of the...

Business 101: Using Basics to Grow Revenue

As radiology practices nationwide look for new revenue streams to compensate for ever-declining reimbursement, the answer might be getting back to basics, according to...

Imaging Referendum

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