Transparency is a term that can be applied to almost any aspect of a business’ operations, and while it is always a worthwhile goal, it is particularly important for radiology practices to embrace and achieve transparency when it comes to the billing cycle. A practice’s financial health is significantly improved by an ongoing understanding of the

On June 8, Insight Imaging and Center for Diagnostic Imaging (CDI) announced their plans to merge. Venture capital played a key role in the transaction, with Black Diamond Capital Management, which owns a majority interest in Insight Imaging, enabling it to buy out the owners of CDI. The combined organization will be headquartered in Minneapolis,

The interventional-radiology department at Tufts Medical Center (Boston, Massachusetts) was an early adopter of the workflow tool HI-IQ, developed by ConexSys; however, a recent initiative to develop a paperless workflow led the department to fuller use of its features. “When I came on board two years ago, we sat down and looked at the capabilities

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The rhetoric has been pretty hot as the presidential candidates face off in the final sprint to the finish line. Much of the discussion concerns the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but no small amount of attention has also been paid to a debate about the respective roles of business and government, beyond health care, in the broader

The American College of Radiology (ACR) and American College of Physician Executives (ACPE) have agreed to make ACPE the newest affiliate organization of the ACR’s Radiology Leadership Institute (RLI).

Radisphere has launched the Radiology Quality Institute (RQI), a collaborative research organization dedicated to the identification and promotion of radiology quality standards in order to improve health care delivery.

For the first time in three years, the annual American Medical Group Association (AMGA) compensation survey has documented a drop in compensation for noninterventional radiologists. The drop is slight — only 0.4 percent — and perhaps unsurprising considering that the ACR has reported that Medicare spending on imaging is the same today as it was in