Clinical Management Consulting

Contract Review
Radiologist Productivity Analysis
Peer Review
Radiation Safety

Contract Review

Is your radiologists – hospital contract equitable and in line with current standards and trends in the industry? Providing perspectives from both radiologists and business managers, the RCG will review the contract and provide advice on areas including, but not limited to the following:

• Non-Compete/Exclusivity Arrangements
  
• Compensation
  
• Business Arrangement
  - profit-sharing
  - bonus structure
  
• Performance Standards
  
• On-Site Requirements and Staffing
  

The RCG team will work to guide you toward the development of a contract that is mutually satisfying to both the radiologists and the organization.

Radiologist Productivity Analysis

Measuring radiologist productivity is a complicated endeavor but one that is vital to successfully managing a radiology practice. The RCG will measure your radiology group’s workload utilizing RBRVS (Resource Based Relative Value Scale) methodology and national benchmarking data and help you address the following:

• How do the workloads compare by:
  - Subspecialty peer groups
  - Location
  - National standards
  
• What is the capacity of your current staff?

Peer Review

A formal quality assurance program is an integral component of a high quality radiology service. As part of your organization’s quality assurance initiative, RCG can conduct and/or facilitate peer reviews. The RCG team of radiologists provides the following services:

• Subspecialty review of a random sampling of films
  
• Radiology report analysis
  • Appropriateness
    
  • Grammar
    
  • Diagnosis / Impression
    
  • Consistency
    
  • Format errors
    
  • Resource utilization
    
  • Spelling
    
• On-Site radiologist interviews and assessment
  
• Referring physician interviews and perspectives
  

Radiation Safety

Concerns about radiation-induced cancer have made optimization of radiation doses associated with CT scanning, an important aspect of quality assurance. Consultation from RCG's experts can be provided on the optimization of radiation doses with CT scanning, including:

• Evaluating CT scanning protocols
  
• Evaluating radiation levels associated with existing scanning protocols
  
• Assessing CT image quality
  
• Recommending optimum scanning techniques
  
• Formulating low radiation dose protocols for specific indications (such as CT colonography and CT urography)
  
• Recommending newer techniques like automatic exposure control for optimizing radiation dose