Practice Management
Key Metrics for 2010: A Conversation With Marcia Flaherty, CEO, Riverside Radiology
At RSNA 2009, analysis of key metrics was emphasized as a means for radiology practices to improve operations, augment quality, and reduce costs.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 18, 2010Leveraging RVU Data to Improve Productivity
Friendly competition has developed among the five radiologists of Capital Imaging Associates, Albany, New York, to the benefit of referrers (and, potentially, to patient care).
ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 21, 2009The ACR and Its Real-world B-school
Radiology is stepping up to the very difficult challenges it faces with the help of an expanding cadre of strong leaders
Radiology Business Journal, October 01, 2009Productivity Tracking for Radiologists
Because there are not enough radiologists available to meet demand, practices must learn to make the most of radiologists’ available time, according to a paper presented in Chicago at RSNA 2008.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, April 15, 2009Radiology: Ancillary No More
Radiologists must counteract practice developments that can result in trivializing their specialty’s contributions to medicine
Radiology Business Journal, March 01, 2009Heroes in Proving the Value of Imaging: Part 1
Heroes in Proving the Value of Imaging is an occasional series about advocates for the profession who are working to enhance radiology through research, governmental affairs, humanitarian efforts, and more. In Part 1, ImagingBiz speaks with academic leader Bruce Hillman, MD.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 15, 2009Patient Surveys Guide Competitive Strategies
Asking customers what they need is one of the best ways of retaining their business, in the experience of Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 15, 2008Summit Radiology CEO Mark Schaefer: The Role of IT in Building the Practice
The story of Summit Radiology is in some respects archetypal: the story of the modern radiology practice.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 15, 2008Tomorrow’s Successful Imaging Leaders
In despair at the way its programs were organized, the business school at one university recruited as the director of programs a successful businessman.
Radiology Business Journal, September 01, 2008Physician Productivity Tracking Takes Hold
No matter how common measuring productivity becomes, there is a deficiency behind it: tracking does not always reflect reality and, as a result, can cause diligent workers to appear less productive.
Radiology Business Journal, September 01, 2008Lynn Elliot: Moving RATC Beyond the Field of Dreams
In 1998, Lynn Elliott, MBA, CPA, accepted a position as CEO of the thriving, hospital-based practice of Radiology Associates of Tarrant County (RATC), Fort Worth, Tex.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, August 15, 2008Assessing the Cost of Individual Radiologists’ Reporting Habits
Medical billing systems are database files managed using programs that perform accounting functions.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, July 15, 2008The Third Rail: Measuring and Managing Physician Productivity
Richard Duszak, MD, bears the authority of experience when he cautions those who dare attempt to manage physician productivity.
Radiology Business Journal, March 15, 2008Negotiating Exclusive Hospital Contracts: Five Critical Issues
Are exclusive hospital contracts negotiable? Of course they are, but when a hospital provides a radiology group with an exclusive contract, the hospital may give the impression that it is a form agreement, ready for signature. What the hospital does not tell you is that these form agreements frequently are heavily negotiated.
Radiology Business Journal, March 15, 2008Aging Well for Radiologists
Many of the reasons for impaired physician performance (such as physical illness, substance abuse, or psychological difficulties) will not affect all physicians.
Radiology Business Journal, March 15, 2008Mark Kleinschmidt: Brokering a Shared Vision
When NightHawk Radiology, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, purchased the business infrastructure of St Paul Radiology in the summer of 2007, the entire industry took notice.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, March 15, 2008Leadership’s Secret Language
Regular readers of this column know that throughout the past year, I have written about various aspects of leadership in an attempt to identify our profession’s next generation of change agents.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 15, 2008Diversified Radiology: Pressing the Hospital Advantage
Diversified Radiology of Colorado, PC, has cast a long shadow in Denver since radiologist Kenneth Allen, MD, founded the practice in 1927.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 15, 2008CXOFiles No.7 Saunders and Mid-South Imaging Bet on Quality
Worth M. Saunders, MHA, has served as chief administrator for the 32-radiologist Mid-South Imaging and Therapeutics, PA, Memphis, Tenn, since 2003.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, November 15, 2007CXOFiles No.6 Q & A: Scott Arant American Health Imaging: Bulwark of Single-Modality Model
Scott Arant, CEO of American Health Imaging (AHI), a 20-center chain based in Decatur, Ga, started operations in June of 1998 in Decatur, Ga, an eastside suburb of Atlanta, with an open MRI, as did many other entrepreneurs around the nation.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, October 15, 2007CXOFiles No.4 Joe A. Paul and Paul N. Cote: The Pair Behind Cypress Partners, LLC
The story of the 14-center imaging chain called Cypress Partners, LLC, [link to: ]http://www.cypresspartners.com/index.html] is a tale of two partners who honed their skills as hired guns at corporate entities operating in the diagnostic imaging space before becoming masters of their realm with their own imaging center company.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, August 15, 2007Carrot Approach to Radiologist Compensation
A creative radiologist compensation plan is critical for improving group and individual performance as well as attracting and retaining talent.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, June 12, 2007CXOFiles No.2 Joseph J. McDonough Comes Full Circle, Takes Helm at Soteria
Last month, peripatetic CEO Joseph J. McDonough returned to imaging after a 5-year hiatus, this time as CEO of Soteria Imaging Services, Louisville, Ky, with a mandate to grow.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, June 12, 2007Academic Incentive Plan: A Takeaway for Private Practice?
Does an incentive plan designed for an academic practice have applications in private practice?
ImagingBiz Newsletter, June 12, 2007CXOFiles No.1 Leading Jefferson Radiology: Mark S. Grossman
When Hartford, Connecticut-based Jefferson Radiology came calling roughly a year-and-a-half ago for Mark S. Grossman, he was happily ensconced in a large radiology practice in Cincinnati, Ohio.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, May 15, 2007Building an Emergency Responder Magnet Safety Program, Part II
Last month we presented a case for proactively training external emergency response personnel in magnet safety, and this month, in Part II, we outline how to develop such an education program for your community. The objectives of your program should be to:
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