Mark F. Weiss[email protected]Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 18 -- Negotiation ploys: From autos to ACOsSuccessful negotiation with hospitals, whether in respect of accountable care organizations (ACOs), exclusive contracts, or any other "alignment," requires the right strategies and tactics. Learn more from healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss in this latest Profit Center installment.January 30, 2011Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 17 -- Turn regulatory lead into strategic goldMandated compliance programs needn't bring thoughts of dread or wasted time. Smart leaders will use these programs to wring additional profits from -- and opportunity for -- their groups, says healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss.November 14, 2010Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 16 -- Countering pressure in hospital negotiationThere's safety in numbers -- a maxim radiologists would do well to remember, especially when negotiating with hospital administrators. In the latest Profit Center installment, healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss advises why you should never go it alone.October 7, 2010Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 15 -- Success requires managing riskThe greater the risk, the greater the reward: We're all familiar with this concept, yet many radiologists are unaware of the risk-reward duality as it affects their business, says healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss.August 12, 2010Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 14 -- Accountable care organizations: Accountable to whom?A new acronym to save healthcare has arrived -- the ACO, or accountable care organization. These amorphously defined entities are likely to become the centerpiece in the war over healthcare dollars, says healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss.June 9, 2010Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 13 -- Radiology as factory work?Are radiologists succumbing to a factory-worker mentality? Such thinking is dangerous, according to healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss. In this edition of the Profit Center, he offers ways for radiologists to change this mentality and move from being treated as a commodity to being treated as a unique resource.April 12, 2010Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 12 -- Exclusive contracts and hospital stipends under attackFear of rising healthcare costs is being exploited to attack exclusive agreements and stipend support from hospitals to hospital-based physicians, according to healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss. He offers advice for counterattack in this edition of the Proft Center.February 18, 2010Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 11 -- Thriving despite (so-called) healthcare reformAs the different sides continue to wrangle over healthcare reform, radiology groups can take steps now to improve their chances of success, regardless of the legislative outcome. So says healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss in this latest installment of the Profit Center.January 12, 2010Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 10 -- Taking on risk with dubious rewardUnlike a gift, it's truly better to receive indemnification than to give it, says healthcare business and legal affairs expert Mark Weiss. In the latest Profit Center installment, Weiss navigates the details of indemnification provisions to help radiology groups avoid potentially unnecessary and damaging payments.January 3, 2010Practice ManagementThe Profit Center: Part 9 -- Securing customer satisfactionAs in other businesses, customer satisfaction can make or break a radiology practice. In the most recent Profit Center installment, Mark Weiss advises how to keep your customers happy to keep your practice successful.November 10, 2009Previous PagePage 2 of 3Next PageTop StoriesRadiology EducationARRS: Consistent disparities found in radiology residency matchA new study found consistent disparities by gender and race for the risk of not matching into diagnostic radiology residency programs.Womens ImagingARRS: DBT leads to less recalls among African American womenISMRM 2024ISMRM: Young investigators study white matter hemodynamics, carotid webs, and moreDigital X-RayARRS: Noncontrast fluoroscopy method can image chronic hypertensionSponsor ContentIMV’s Oncology in Diagnostic Imaging Market Outlook Report
