One of the most emotionally loaded conversations in imaging is that concerning efficiency and productivity. In recent years, these considerations have become increasingly vital to groups’ survival, according to Chad Calendine, MD, CMO of Optimal Radiology Partners and President of Premier Radiology (Nashville, Tennessee). “As peoples’ incomes began to decrease with decreasing reimbursement, they became more focused on how to regain that lost income, and the way to do that is through additional efficiencies and productivity,” he says. “It’s an emotional issue because it strikes to the heart of whether you are a good radiologist and a good partner. Are you pulling your weight?”

In his Time magazine cover story, “Bitter Pill,” journalist Steven Brill dives into line-by-line analyses of patients’ hospital bills, breaking down exactly what they paid for which services. Even as a seven-year veteran of writing about our corner of the economy, I was appalled by what I read. To take a couple of examples at random, one patient

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Philips Healthcare has made an additional donation of nearly $9,000 to help the ASRT Foundation support members who volunteer in under-served communities and provide quality medical imaging and radiation therapy services for populations in need

Got an idea for how to accomplish the enormous job of speeding the nation-wide adoption of electronic health records that actually can share data (interoperability) without spending any extra money? Health and Human Services (HHS) is all ears

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The founders of the Atlanta-based medical billing and practice management company credit MMP’s core value of partnership with clients as the underpinning for the company’s two decades of growth

The NEJM research and findings by the journal Cancer that 12,000 lives alone might be saved using more conservative criteria supports advocates' arguments for expanding testing criteria and payor coverage