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The Jig Is Up

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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Better Business Intelligence: Enhanced CPT Code Analysis

This article is the first in a two-part series about how radiology practices can derive superior business intelligence from their existing coding and payment data.

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Leadership

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 was common for radiologists to

Imaging Informatics

Managing the Email Archive: Compliance and Complexities

Health-care IT professionals are no strangers to the complexities that arise from managing ever-growing archives. One particular subset of the data stored across the enterprise, however, might be overlooked:

Care Delivery

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 a clinical interventional-radiology service. A

Health Policy

ACOs and Radiology Technology: A Conversation With Bibb Allen Jr, MD

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for early adopters to launch accountable-care organization (ACO) demonstration projects and shared-savings programs in 2012. The development of these value-added services and

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