The “No Surprises Act,” embedded within the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021, is meant to curb this practice, banning surprise bills for most emergency services, out-of-network cost sharing, balance billing for out-of-network providers at an in-network visit, and up-front notice about billing procedures and complaint disputes.
For the better part of the past decade-plus, staffing concerns in the medical imaging space were mostly concerned with managing the institutional knowledge loss of generational retirements.
Across America, the past few years have seen the social and cultural issues related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) elevated to a prominence comparable to the Civil Rights era of the 1960s. Institutions from law and government to business, athletics, the arts – and, of course, health care – have all striven to address long-held assumptions and implicit biases within their work.
In 2007, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) debuted its performance optimization framework for health care organizations, the Triple Aim. It is anchored in the acknowledgment that health care simultaneously faces spiraling costs, novel challenges, and questions of accessibility to broad segments of America. IHI proposed a framework encapsulating these concerns within a trio of responses, or aims: enhancing patient experience, improving population health and reducing costs.
Although communication is a fundamental skill in any working environment, choosing the right words to get your message across in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment like health care can be complicated.
For as much thought as goes into providing optimal patient experiences in health care from the perspectives of health outcomes and quality of care, management of revenue streams seldom seems to enter the conversation.
“What is hurting us right now are these travel companies,” Mohammed said. “People don’t really have to commit to an institution. They’re being offered really high wages for 13 weeks, and then they can be on their way. New talent can simply jump on that. The whole landscape of health care has changed. We no longer have people working for 20 years in one place.”
Medical imaging modalities and the patient-specific information they provide continue to be increasingly integrated in nearly every aspect of medicine, from diagnostic applications to treatment planning to surgical interventions.
At the best of times, bringing at-risk and underserved patients in for routine breast cancer screening can be a complex proposition. But during the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, when elective imaging procedures were shelved as all of the health care world shifted to battling the virus, a new wrinkle emerged.
When the latest and greatest technologies don’t solve all your problems on their own, what’s necessary to manage them becomes grounded in different kinds of decision-making.
ICE is the community that directly links nearly 9,000 imaging professionals and administrators. Each issue contains insightful and relevant content ranging from technological advances to new tools to professional development.
© 2024 MD Publishing
