5TH Annual Economics Summit 2010: Strategies for Successful Radiology Practices in the 21st Century

5TH Annual Economics Summit 2010: Strategies for Successful Radiology Practices in the 21st Century
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - Saturday, April 17, 2010

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MEETING DESCRIPTION:
ABOUT THE MEETING

Healthcare reform is front and center on the national agenda; and this meeting will explore its implications for radiology and radiologists. However, this new administration is one challenge facing our specialty. Turf wars are intensifying, hospital administrators are becoming more demanding, and commoditization and corporatization are harsh realities.

Important issues such as understanding and effectively using principles of negotiations, preparing practices for reimbursement pressures and developing strategies for dealing with turf battles will be explored. New concepts including pay-for-performance, physician extenders and the new economic realities will be discussed.

The times ahead will be more difficult for radiologists; and, this course is structured to present practical solutions to the problems facing the specialty. The comprehensive course syllabus should provide substantial take-home information that registrants can use as a resource for improving this structure and operations of their practices. The course will be interactive, utilizing the audience response system to provide immediate feedback. The registrants will be able to participate in the popular socio-economic data project, comparing their practice with those of the other attendees from throughout the country. The faculty is comprised of nationally recognized teachers who have implemented those skills successfully in their own practice and in many others across the country.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This CME activity is primarily intended and designed to educate radiologists, hospital CEOs, CFOs, and Board members, corporate executives, radiology business managers, reimbursement decision makers, and technical directors of radiology departments.

OBJECTIVES

Attendees should, at the completion of this course, be able to:

Discuss the impact of the Obama Administration on the practice of radiology
Develop strategies to deal with turf incursions
Adopt crisis management principles to deal with difficult times
Apply negotiation strategies to deal more effectively with hospital administrators
Take definitive measures to de-commoditize their practices
Develop metrics to measure and manage productivity
Describe the relationship of self-referral and over-utilization
Adopt action plans to cope with future trends such as commoditization and corporatization

INSTRUCTORS:
Allen, Berlin, Brant-Zawadzki, Duszak, Levin, Lexa, Muroff

CME HOURS: 17.25

LECTURE TOPICS:
not listed