You could say that Sandy Benson grew up at Seattle Radiologists. If you said that Seattle Radiologists grew up with Benson, you also would be correct. A former radiologic technologist with interventional-radiology experience, she joined the practice in 1983 to open an outpatient interventional lab and, 25 years later, continues to serve the

At least half of the elements of various success formulas, in business and in life, relate to one’s ability to keep a positive outlook—especially when circumstances make it most difficult to do so. It is so easy to succumb to the temptation to curl up in a fetal position in the face of adversity. Frankly, there is something to be said for the

Though the population of women over 40 is on the rise, the number of mammography facilities fully certified in compliance with the provisions of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) has declined slightly over the past five years. In December 2002, there were 9,306 fully certified facilities; as of December 31, 2007, there were 8,859.

Providing the full continuum of breast care earns the loyalty of the all-important female health care consumer, considerable downstream imaging, and the mammography annuity

Is radiology benefit management (RBM) companies extend the reach of precertification and preauthorization programs, hospitals and physician practices across the nation are incurring significant personnel and software costs in their efforts to manage program requirements.

So many strategic plans end up collecting dust because group practices are not properly primed to act, Richard Townley, MBA, president and CEO of AGI Healthcare Group, San Ramon, Calif, believes. He shared his philosophy at the RBMA-sponsored Managing a Radiology Business from the Top: Physicians & Administrators meeting on February 23, 2008, in

A former managed care executive predicts that accreditation/credentialing and cost transparency are next up in insurers’ campaigns to contain imaging costs

In 1998, Jakob Nielsen, PhD, hailed by the New York Times as the guru of Web-page usability, wrote, “The Web is simply not that suited for advertising.”1 He also predicted that content would become self-optimizing. In his defense, it should be noted that Nielsen was right far more often than he was wrong. Since then, the Internet has developed both