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Radiology Billing, CSI: Managing Individual Payor Contracts
At NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC), New York, New York, even though the radiology department’s billing office adheres to the principle of a cross-trained staff pool, it practices the explicit division of labor.
Medical Imaging Review, January 26, 2010Managing the Revenue Cycle
In revenue-cycle management for the practice, imaging center, and radiology department, success is achieved through the relentless and ongoing pursuit of defined metrics, with all hands on deck
Radiology Business Journal, December 01, 2009Restructuring the Balance Sheet
If you are anything like me, you have had a few sleepless nights worrying about the future of the health-services industry.
Radiology Business Journal, October 01, 2009Accessing Capital in a Tight Credit Market
After weathering last fall’s fiscal catastrophe, many hospital CFOs now find themselves in Bert Zimmerli’s position.
Medical Imaging Review, July 26, 2009Imaging JVs: Strategic Partners or Just One More Competitor?
Hospital-radiology group JVs are key to preserving and growing imaging market share, but failure to cement strong relationships and expectations from the start is a prescription for failure
Radiology Business Journal, May 01, 2009The High Price of Low Payment
Prepare for sharp increases in diagnostic imaging costs if CMS prices practices and entrepreneurs out of the imaging center business
Radiology Business Journal, May 01, 2009The Weakening Economy and Health Care Collections
One of the overlooked consequences of the current economic uncertainty is the effect on health care collections.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, March 15, 2009Top 10 Control Items for Managing Practice Financials
You have, no doubt, heard the story about the quiet, loyal employee with many years of service to the business who one day sends his boss a postcard from Rio de Janiero, saying that he’s not coming back.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 15, 2008Historical Review of Mergers and Acquisitions in Diagnostic Imaging
From the go-go years to the present, acquisition strategies in the outpatient diagnostic imaging field have not always worked
Radiology Business Journal, December 01, 2008Negotiating for Better Reimbursement
Negotiating higher reimbursement is nearly always possible, according to Penny Noyes, president and CEO, Health Business Navigators, Bowling Green, Ky.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, November 15, 2008The New Economics of Contrast
Not too long ago, prices for contrast media could get a radiology director’s pulse racing.
Radiology Business Journal, September 01, 2008Financial Adventures in Imaging, Post DRA
It’s been a year and a half since the debut of the DRA imaging cuts, and the dust is beginning to settle in the outpatient imaging market, according to Douglas Lynch.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, August 15, 2008Operating Radiology As an Individual Business Unit
Both hospitals and imaging centers are struggling with economic and political pressures that are straining their relationships with staff; finance (administration/owners); radiologists; vendors (IT providers, equipment manufacturers, suppliers, and consultants); referring physicians; and the community (your patients).
ImagingBiz Newsletter, July 15, 2008Stronger Financial Statements Earn Better Financing Options
Obtaining the most favorable financing depends on having the kinds of financial statements that lenders want to see.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, April 15, 2008Structuring Imaging Ventures in Today’s Regulatory Climate
Over the past 15 years, outpatient imaging has been subject to high growth rates.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, December 15, 2007Can an EMP Reduce Center Operating Costs?
In light of the Deficit Reduction Act, which went into effect in this month, many imaging practices and physician offices that provide diagnostic imaging services, are looking for ways to reduce their operating costs.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, January 15, 2007The CRO: On Reimbursement Watch
Sometimes I joke with people who ask me what I do for a living. “I am a crow,” I reply.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, November 15, 2006Financing Challenges for the Post-DRA Era
The pending implementation of the DRA reimbursements cuts has been looming over the diagnostic imaging industry for the past year.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, November 15, 2006Attention, All Campers
Much has been said and written about the significant economic effect the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) will have on the imaging industry.
ImagingBiz Newsletter, September 15, 2006
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