Healthcare Innovation April 5, 2019
Radiologists are having to change how they work, on every level—clinical, operational, financial—in order to adjust to the demands of the increasingly value-based healthcare payment and delivery system
The entire world of radiology practice is changing quickly now, as are all the other worlds in U.S. healthcare, as everything is being driven by broad policy, payment, and business trends. And one foundational way it’s changing is being reflected in the accelerating consolidation of radiology practices.
A team of researchers (Andrew B. Rosenkrantz, M.D., Howard B. Fleishon, M.D., Ezequiel Silva III, M.D., Claire E. Bender, M.D., and Richard Duszak Jr., M.D.) documented the consolidation in an article in the February issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR)....