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The Industrial-strength Imaging Executive

by Curtis Kauffman-Pickelle

Today’s medical-imaging profession is definitely not for the fragile and weak-kneed among our colleagues. It is becoming increasingly clear that navigating the constant changes and challenges that face the practice of radiology today will be the ultimate test of tenacity, perseverance, and creativity. We’re in the playoffs now, and the game is moving to the big-time arena—where the margin for error is nil.

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Finger in the Wind

by Cheryl Proval

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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Health Reform’s Impact on Imaging

ImagingBiz Newsletter | Revenue Track | July 14, 2010

Plenty remains unknowable about the incipient impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA), but the act does stand to affect imaging providers, specifically through its compliance, fraud, and payment provisions, many of which have already taken effect or will take effect in the near future.

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A Health-reform Primer for Providers

Radiology Business Journal | Feature | July 07, 2010

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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Finger in the Wind

Radiology Business Journal | Adview | July 04, 2010

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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When the Invisible Hand Meets an Immovable Object

Radiology Business Journal | Adview | April 28, 2010

In a coincidence worth noting, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations was published in 1776, the year that our nation-to-be declared its independence from what was then the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Five Steps to a CER Project Portfolio

ImagingBiz Newsletter | NONE | April 12, 2010

In a recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Harold C. Sox, MD, chair of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee to set national priorities for comparative-effectiveness research (CER).

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Comparative-effectiveness Research and Imaging: Insights and Ambitions

ImagingBiz Newsletter | Legislative Report | April 12, 2010

In addition to extending coverage to an estimated 31 million US residents, the recently passed HR 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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Implications of Reform for Hospitals: Seismic or Subtle?

Radiology Business Journal | Strategic Planning | February 24, 2010

Hospitals are keeping a wary eye on Washington, and on several key payor trends with major implications for imaging service lines, for good reason.

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Preparing for Potential Reform: The Hospital View

ImagingBiz Newsletter | Imaging Futures | January 18, 2010

Some proponents of national health care reform expect to pop the champagne corks any day now in celebration of getting a bill through Congress.

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Too Big to Understand

ImagingBiz Newsletter | The Big Picture | December 21, 2009

I just finished reading the new book about last year’s financial near meltdown, Too Big to Fail (Viking, 2009), by Andrew Ross Sorkin.

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Window on 2010: Impact of Imaging-Specific Health Care Reforms

ImagingBiz Newsletter | Legislative Report | December 21, 2009

Since the dawn of the DRA at the close of 2005, health care observers have predicted a follow-on DRA II. It appears that this prediction will come to pass shortly after the clock strikes midnight on December 31.

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Health Care Efficiency: No Miracle Cure

ImagingBiz Newsletter | Think Tank | October 14, 2009

Health care reform ideas are everywhere these days.

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Too Much Health Care?

ImagingBiz Newsletter | The Big Picture | September 10, 2009

Of all the issues facing today’s imaging executives and radiologists, none sounds more cacophonous than the nearly universal cry that the United States spends too much on its health care.

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Radiology Braces for Change Ahead

Radiology Business Journal | Feature | September 09, 2009

Some US employees still enjoy Cadillac-style health plans in which little is paid out of pocket and coverage includes almost every health need, but health care costs for its workers helped send Cadillac maker General Motors into bankruptcy.

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Adding Patient Value to Health Care

Radiology Business Journal | Health Care Reform | September 09, 2009

Harvard professor, best-selling business author, and management consultant specializing in competitive advantage Michael E. Porter, PhD, offers his free-market spin on health care reform¹ in the July 8, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

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Against the Sword of Damocles

Radiology Business Journal | The Bottom Line | September 09, 2009

Radiology will fare better under reform than in its absence; it is advisable to join the battle

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The Demise of Reason (and Eating Crow)

Radiology Business Journal | Adview | September 09, 2009

When politics enters the health care debate, reason departs

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Health Care Reform and Medical Imaging: The 10,000-foot View

ImagingBiz Newsletter | Legislative Report | August 18, 2009

The Obama administration is pursuing an aggressive timetable to deliver on a campaign promise to make affordable health care available to all US residents.

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Radiology and the Culture of Money

Radiology Business Journal | Final Read | July 01, 2009

Let’s get the full disclosure part out of the way right up front.

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Health Care Tomorrow: A Revisionist Preview

ImagingBiz Newsletter | Imaging Futures | June 11, 2009

Jeff Goldsmith predicts that, despite inevitable changes, the future of health care is more sound than many people believe.

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Health Reform’s Shortest Era

ImagingBiz Newsletter | The Big Picture | February 15, 2009

He came. He saw. He vanished. Just as we health care journalist types were lining up the margins and checking references on our various predictions of what Tom Daschle would bring to the health reform debate and process, he bequeathed his White House office to his deputy in waiting.

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Health Care Delivery, Undisrupted

Radiology Business Journal | Leadership | December 01, 2008

How to afford health care is not the question we should be asking in these times of unsustainable health care cost increases.

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