Reengineering the radiology enterprise: a summary of the 2014 Intersociety Committee Summer Conference.
The current initiative to reform health care from both a quality and a cost perspective has already had a profound impact on the radiology enterprise. We have seen a decrease in the utilization of imaging studies, a reduction in reimbursement, a declining payer mix, shrinking incomes, a proliferation of performance indices, creation of radiology mega-groups, growth of national radiology companies, and increasing turf incursions. Our cheese is clearly on the move, and we must take action to reengineer the radiology enterprise. In keeping with general health care reform, we must be patient-centric, data driven, and outcome based. We must create a radiology enterprise that adheres to the value equation of providing the highest quality health care, for the lowest possible cost, for all citizens.
Department of Radiology, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado. Electronic address: gerald.dodd@ucdenver.edu.
Gerald D
GD
Dodd
Trinity Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama.
Bibb
B
Allen
University of Colorado Health System, Aurora, Colorado.
Derek
D
Birzniek
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Giles W
GW
Boland
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
James A
JA
Brink
Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Keith J
KJ
Dreyer
Department of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Paras
P
Khandheria
Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jonathan B
JB
Kruskal
Radiology Imaging Associates, Englewood, Colorado.
Peter
P
Ricci
Department of Radiology, University of California Davis Health System, Sacramento, California.
J Anthony
JA
Seibert
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado, Aurora, Colorado.
Richard
R
Zane
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ACR; Intersociety Committee; Intersociety Committee Summer Conference; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; health care reform