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The case for coronary CT angiography in the emergency department grows stronger every day, offering radiology practices that can deliver 24/7 interpretations a foothold in the exclusive field of cardiac imaging.

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The hospital-employed model and the proliferation of corporate teleradiology providers are causing more radiologists to choose employment over partnership.

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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.

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While debate continues to swirl around the future of general radiology, the marketplace is clearly moving toward subspecialization and the real-world challenges that it presents.

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Priors >>

Mindful Cost Cutting

Consider this scenario: You have exercised your duties as a manager over the past several years by cutting costs where possible, but now, you have been ordered to make further administrative cost reductions of 10%, 20%, or even 30%, and you cannot fathom how it will be done. Does this sound familiar?

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Operating an Imaging-center Chain in the Postapocalyptic Era

It began with the DRA, and ever since, CMS and Congress have set upon outpatient imaging like dogs on a bone, culminating in a new round of cuts to the technical component contained in the health-reform law. As a result, operations at many outpatient-imaging organizations came into acute focus in 2005, and they continue to be scrutinized.

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Dissecting a Mantra: Doing More With Less

Whenever the economic aspects of business get tough, do more with less is a phrase heard everywhere.

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Pat Basu, MD, MBA: The Radiologist in the White House

While radiologists have served in prominent positions in Washington, DC, in the past, none have ever served as White House fellow and special assistant to the president before the recent appointment of Pat Basu, MD, MBA, as one of 13 men and women to serve in the 2010–2011 class of fellows.

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Departments >>

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.

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Can Decision Support Supplant Precertification?

Radiology decision support could qualify as meaningful use

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The Message Is the Medium

As a journalism and media student in the early 1970s, I was exposed to what was just then emerging as an entirely new way of aligning the creators of information with those who were hungry to receive it.

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