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Thomson Reuters Releases National 2011-2016 MRI/CT Procedure Forecast What do reimbursement declines, increased use of contracted pre-authorization services, increased regulatory oversight, and greater competition all have in common? They are all market forces (mostly negative) that have had the ability to influence the use and growth of Advanced Imaging over the last several years.
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ACOs and Radiology Technology: A Conversation With Bibb Allen Jr, MD The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act calls for early adopters to launch accountable-care organization (ACO) demonstration projects and shared-savings programs in 2012. The development of these value-added services and the general trend toward formation of ACOs will undoubtedly lead to changes not only in the acquisition of imaging technology by providers, but also in the radiology landscape as a whole.
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Accountable Care: Are You Ready? Accountable care organizations (ACOs) have been described as having three fundamental characteristics:a 
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7 Reasons Hospitals Struggle to Align With Physicians Physician-hospital alignment is becoming more important as hospitals seek to lower costs, improve care and prepare themselves for payment models that reward collaboration. Kenneth Cohn, MD, MBA, FACS, a practicing surgeon and the author of Getting It Done, discusses seven problems that plague physician alignment attempts — and how hospitals can achieve integration in spite of them.
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Business 101: Using Basics to Grow Revenue As radiology practices nationwide look for new revenue streams to compensate for ever-declining reimbursement, the answer might be getting back to basics, according to Greg Thomson and Dan Simile Jr of Medical Management Professionals, Inc (MMP), Atlanta, Georgia. In the first installment of a four-part series on critical business principles, Thomson and Simile outline three ways in which practices can improve the effectiveness of their operations: goal setting and strategic planning, execution of goals, and communication and information sharing.
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RBMs in New Orleans: The Panel and the Pain On June 7, 2011, at the Annual Summit of the RBMA in New Orleans, Louisiana, four CEOs and one senior leader—representing all five radiology benefit management (RBM) companies—participated in a panel discussion during a general session, “Face to Face With RBM CEOs: Shaping the Dialogue for Imaging’s New Realities.” Look for coverage of that session in the August/September issue of this magazine.
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