Information about the ACR Managed Care Committee and Managed Care Network

 

I. Managed Care Committee Mission

The Managed Care Committee will address non-Medicare-related issues in order to:

  1. Ensure that patients receive high quality and appropriate diagnostic and therapeutic radiological and imaging services in order to optimize their care in a cost-effective manner; and
  2. Ensure that radiologists and radiation oncologists are adequately and fairly compensated for their professional services; and
  3. Sustain the inevitable growth of diagnostic and therapeutic radiology and imaging in an economically hostile environment.

II. Managed Care Committee Mission Process

  1. To determine the needs of American College of Radiology (ACR) members in order to effectively deal with managed care organizations and to develop resources, services and products responsive to those needs; and
  2. To evaluate current and potential future trends in payer behavior and philosophy and alert members to those trends as permitted by law; and
  3. To educate payers, patients and hospitals as well as other health care providers, about the value of diagnostic and therapeutic radiology in providing cost-effective medical care.

III. Managed Care Committee Members

Christopher G. Ullrich, M.D., Chair
Mark O. Bernardy, M.D.
W. Shawn Conwell, M.D.
Mark W. Cooper, M.D., MBA
Bruce H. Curran, M.E.
Jeremy Friese, M.D.
David Lawson, M.D.
Vickie L. Massey, M.D.
Frank E. McWilliams, M.D.
Daniel J. Mollura, M.D.
Robert S. Pyatt, Jr., M.D.
John W. Rieke, M.D.
Lawrence C. Swayne, M.D.
Richard N. Taxin, M.D.
Jeffrey L. Thomasson, M.D., FACR
Mark Ming-Yi Yeh, M.D.
Suzanne Taylor, RBMA Liaison
Kathryn Keysor, ACR Staff