Ben White

Choosing Rocks | Ben White There's a common first-things-first productivity parable of the rocks and the jar. It goes like this: Imagine you have an empty jar that represents your life, and you have different sizes of rocks…

There’s a common first-things-first productivity parable about fitting rocks into a jar. Is it a lie?

Quality, speed, and “productivity” | Ben White The Tension There is an inherent tension in radiology between quality and speed. Obviously, there are faster radiologists and slower radiologists. And there are better radiologists and worse…

There is an inherent tension in radiology between quality and speed. Obviously, there are faster radiologists and slower radiologists. And there are better radiologists and worse radiologists.

When structuring a radiology practice, department, workflow...what is “fair” and how do we achieve it?

The Procedure Fetish / Bureaucratic Anxiety Cycle | Ben White From "The how we need now: A capacity agenda for 2025 and beyond," published by the Niskanen Center think tank. What are the forces making the government so slow? The first of those dysfunctions is…

"The revised system must shift its emphasis from compliance to meeting mission needs. This means power to make decisions must shift from compliance personnel to the people closest to the work."

- from "The How We Need Now" published by the Niskanen Center think tank.

“Only the paranoid survive” | Ben White Old advice from Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel (back when Intel was killing it), from a 2007 Esquire interview: Not all problems have a technological answer, but when they do, that is the more…

"Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive."
-Former Intel CEO, Andy Grove

Some other choice quotes from his 2007 Esquire interview:

If private practice is so great… | Ben White Since I started writing about private equity in radiology back in 2022 and more recently since featuring private practice jobs on the site followed by launching Independent Radiology, I often get…

"If private practice is so great, why are so many groups struggling?"

Because it’s hard.

Especially amidst a labor shortage with shifting lifestyle & remote work demands on a background of consolidated health networks, payer shenanigans, and CMS cuts.

Some Advice on Learning Radiology | Ben White Here are several things to consider about learning radiology in addition to my articles on Approaching the R1 Year, How to be a First Year Radiology Resident, and Radiology Call Tips. Develop Robust…

Added a listicle this week of miscellaneous advice for learning radiology to my previous series:

Ashes to a New Radiology Practice | Ben White People often ask me what I think will/does happen when private equity groups fail. The answer I've always said is it probably depends. The work needs to get done, so there are three big options:…

There was a story this past summer that I didn't write about on the blog: a completely new group formed to take back work from a reportedly unsatisfying private equity practice:

Aetna v. Radiology Partners | Ben White The first pile-on lawsuit against Radiology Partners has arrived: UnitedHealth's original 2023 lawsuit against RP for an alleged "pass-through billing scheme" wrapped up this fall, and Aetna just…

Aetna has followed UnitedHealthcare in suing Radiology Partners for alleged pass-through billing fraud and abuse of the No Surprises Act's independent dispute resolution (“IDR”) process. How many more of these are we going to see? What a mess.