Syed Furqan Zaidi MD, Moderator: Nothing to Disclose

Jonathan Breslau MD, Presenter: Investor, BioIncept, LLC

Giles W. Boland MD, Presenter: Principal, Radiology Consulting Group Royalties, Reed Elsevier

1) Identify changes in the relationship between hospitals and radiologists. 2) Learn about different models of radiology practice including employed, academic, private practice and their different relationships with hospitals. 3) Learn about evolving practice models for hospital based radiologists including co-management, pay for performance structures, and hybrid relationships in academic centers. 4) Learn about evolving compensation models away from traditional fee for service, including bundling, ACO’s, and at-risk contracts.

The healthcare landscape in the US is changing rapidly with the pressures of healthcare reform and rising costs forcing consolidation and changes in relationships between hospitals and radiologists.  Hospitals are looking for alignment with both their employed and private practice radiologists.  Radiology groups are under additional pressures of competition within radiology between private practice, academic and national corporate radiology groups in a landscape of declining reimbursement and pressures on the traditional fee for service business model.  This session aims to address ways that different types of radiology groups are facing the changing landscape.  There will be different models presented including employed, academic, and private practice models.  There will be examples presented on different contractual relationships evolving from the traditional exclusive radiology services contract including co-management and pay for performance structures.  There will also be discussion of compensation models that may evolve within ACOs and other structures that hold providers accountable for the total cost of care.

Zaidi, S, Breslau, J, Boland, G, Changing Radiologist-Hospital Relationships.  Radiological Society of North America 2014 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, - ,Chicago IL. http://archive.rsna.org/2014/14000574.html