Los Angeles Times | California emergency room doctors are fighting to preserve a state fund that compensates them for treating poor, uninsured patients at private hospitals — money that lawmakers want to shift to the federal insurance program in order to help bridge the budget...
HealthLeadersMedia | Methodist Charlton Medical Center in south Dallas is staffed for 225 beds but its emergency department volume is equal to hospitals two and three times larger, says its president, Jonathan Davis. That's why when the ED is having problems, the rest of the...
Diagnostic Imaging | The workload may be heavy, and the time short, but know this: patients want their radiology study results quickly, and many are happy to get those results directly from the radiologist, according to the study “Creating a Patient-Centered Imaging Service: Determining What...
Diagnostic Imaging | Efficiency comes in many forms and touches all aspects of your practice. Poor efficiency does not just mean you make less money. It leads to frustration and job dissatisfaction. It may be distracting. As all radiologists know, distraction is one of the...
ImagingBiz | A recent federal appeals court decision that dismissed a suit focusing on the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) so-called Red Flags Rule “validates” its long-standing argument that physicians who bill after providing services are not subject to that rule as creditors, the American Medical...
