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The Business of Radiology

The Oakstone Institute

ALL NEW RELEASE!

ONE OF A KIND, COMPREHENSIVE BUSINESS OF RADIOLOGY COURSE

The Business of Radiology program will develop and disseminate educational content that is relevant and meaningful to clinical practice through activities designed to enhance physicians’ knowledge, competence, and performance for improved patient care.  This activity will enhance physician’s knowledge and skills such that they can provide radiology services to patients in a more efficient, cost-effective, profitable manner. They will be able to supply care to more patients at higher quality through implementation of suggestions made in this course.

EARN ABR QUALIFIED SAM CREDIT

Course Director: David M. Yousem, MD, MBA

Includes the textbook!
Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed
By Drs. David M. Yousem and Norman J. Beauchamp, Jr.

 
CREDITS Earn up to 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 1 SAM Credit
CE RELEASE March 24, 2010
CE EXPIRE March 24, 2013
 
Item No Media (Can't decide on a format?) Price Purchase
712DD
Video - DVD: Includes 6 DVDs, 1 CD-ROM Syllabus with carrying case, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information.
$595.00
7124P
: Includes 1 MP4 data disc, 1 CD-ROM Syllabus with carrying case, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information.
$595.00
712CD
Audio - CD: Includes 16 audio CDs, 1 CD-ROM Syllabus with carrying case, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information.
$495.00
7123P
: Includes 1 MP3 data disc, 1 CD-ROM Syllabus with carrying case, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information.
$495.00
712DC
Combo DVD/CD Package: Includes 6 DVDs plus 16 audio CDs, 1 CD-ROM Syllabus with carrying case, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information.
$795.00
712D3
Combo DVD/MP3 Package: Includes 6 DVDs plus 1 MP3 data disc, 1 CD-ROM Syllabus with carrying case, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information.
$795.00
7124C
Combo MP4/CD Package: Includes 1 MP4 data disc plus 16 audio CDs, 1 CD-ROM Syllabus with carrying case, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information.
$795.00
71243
Combo MP4/MP3 Package: Includes 1 MP4 data disc plus 1 MP3 data disc, 1 CD-ROM Syllabus with carrying case, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information.
$795.00
712AUP
Additional User Package: Includes 1 CD-ROM Syllabus, Textbook Radiology Business Practice: How to Succeed, and CME information (initial video and/or audio purchase required).
$250.00
 
Special pricing for clinic-wide orders or for group subscriptions/purchases. Minimum order quantities apply for eligible discounts. For further information and pricing estimates, contact Kyle Jackson at 1-800-952-0690 x3075.
 

Target Audience


This educational activity will focus on recent graduates from radiology training programs that are entering the work force without a basic understanding of those business principles needed to conduct radiology practices. It will also target business administrators and hospital administrators who deal with radiology services. Trainees in residencies, fellowships, radiology technology schools, MBA programs, health services programs will benefit from this program as well. This will apply to both private practice and academic based radiologists from all fields of the specialty.
 
 

Topics & Speakers


  • Introduction: Why Do We Have to Know This Stuff?
    David M. Yousem, MD, MBA
Leadership and Metrics
  • Leadership
  • Metrics of Performance
    Norman J. Beauchamp, Jr., MD, MHS
  • Physician Extenders in Radiology: Balancing Quality, Compliance, and Access to Care
  • Physician Service Valuation: From CPT to RBRVS to Payment
    Richard Duszak, Jr., MD
  • Strategic Planning for Radiology Leaders
  • Service and Quality Performance
    Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA
  • Improving Physician Performance: Strategies for Squeezing the Most Out of Your Human Resources
    David M. Yousem, MD, MBA

Practice Management
  • Accounts Receivable
  • Quality Assurance
  • Turf Issues
    Norman J. Beauchamp, Jr., MD, MHS
  • Reimbursement Management Strategies: Navigating Obstacles on an Uneven Playing Field
  • Pay for Performance: Translating Quality into Reimbursement
    Richard Duszak, Jr., MD
  • Accounts Payable: Managing your Expenses
  • Capital Equipment Budgeting and Purchasing
  • Incorporation: Yes? No? What Type?
  • Practice Valuation: For Sale? Merger? Negotiation?
    David Yousem, MD, MBA
  • Marketing and Branding in Radiology
  • Medical Entrepreneurship
    Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA
Physician Motivation, Responsibility, and Liability
  • Accreditation, Certification, Credentialing
  • Maintenance of Certification: What Do I Need to Know?
  • Malpractice: Insurance and Reduction of Risk Self-Assessment Module
  • Tips for Avoiding the Malpractice Suit
    David Yousem, MD, MBA
  • Hospital and Employment Contracts: Operational and
  • Strategic Perspectives
  • Compliance, Fraud and Abuse: What Radiology Practices Should and Shouldn’t Be Doing
    Richard Duszak, Jr., MD
  • Incentive Plans
    Norman J. Beauchamp, Jr., MD, MHS 

National, Regional Issues
  • Self-Referral and Stark Laws: Global Warming?
  • Final Advice
    David M. Yousem, MD, MBA
  • Outlook for US Healthcare
    Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA

 
 

Faculty


David M. Yousem, MD, MBA
Course Director
Professor of Radiology
Director of Neuroradiology
Vice Chairman of Program Development
Johns Hopkins Medical Institution

Norman J. Beauchamp, MD MHS
Professor and Chair
Department of Radiology
University of Washington


Richard Duszak, MD, FACR, FSIR, RCC
Vice-Chair, ACR Commission on Economics
Member, AMA CPT Editorial Panel
Editor-in-Chief,
Clinical Examples in Radiology

Frank J. Lexa, MD, MBA
Professor, Emirates and Asia Regional Manager the Global Consulting Practicum
Professor of Marketing, The Wharton School
Vice Chair & Professor of Radiology, Drexel University
Professor of Management in the Life Sciences, IE, Madrid, España


 
 

Objectives


At the completion of this activity, participants should be able to:
  • Apply business principles that lead to a more efficient and profitable radiology practice
  • Interpret guidelines for credentialing, certification, fraud avoidance, and malpractice prevention that ensure high physician quality performance
  • Employ leadership skills, expense management, collection-accounts receivable guidelines, quality assurance tenets, and efficiency guidelines that will lead to more effective provision of patient care

 
 

Accreditation


Oakstone Medical Publishing is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


 
 

Designation


Oakstone Medical Publishing designates this educational activity for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ and 1 SAM Credit. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Date of Original Release: March 24, 2010
Date of Credit Termination: March 24, 2013

CME credit is obtained upon successful completion of a post activity assessment. A $30 processing fee must accompany the completed post activity assessment.

American Board of Radiology  

Malpractice: Insurance and Reduction of Risk Self-Assessment Module is qualified by the American Board of Radiology (ABR) in meeting the criteria for self-assessment toward the purpose of fulfilling requirements in the ABR Maintenance of Certification Program. Date of ABR qualification, March 24, 2010.