AuntMinnie
NOVEMBER 25, 2024
Most radiologists have heard of Moore’s Law. A close colleague observed that radiologists are affected by a type of Moore’s Law. The amount of scans a radiologist is expected to shift per day is increasing year on year. Today’s radiologist is expected to shift work at an eye-watering rate. Paul McCoubrie, MBBS.
AuntMinnie
JANUARY 22, 2024
Out-of-network billing by radiologists – often referred to as “surprise billing” – dropped significantly beginning in 2007 and imaging claims are now almost completely in network, according to a recent study. And by 2021, radiologists practiced almost exclusively in-network, according to the researchers. in 2007 to 1.1%
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AuntMinnie
APRIL 2, 2025
A significant percentage of imaging studies ordered by office-based healthcare providers are self-interpreted rather than referred to radiologists for reading, according to researchers from the Harvey L. The large differences between radiologists and nonradiologists in interpretation training could lead to differences in diagnostic accuracy."
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 30, 2023
“Based on discussions with our interventional radiology colleagues, dislodged PCNs or severe encrustation may result in much longer and more complex procedures, including the potential need for entirely new access into the collecting system, thereby resulting in higher fluoroscopy use,” Lyon and colleagues wrote.
AuntMinnie
MARCH 21, 2024
With interest growing in reevaluating this energy consumption, the researchers equipped seven units at their hospital with power sensors: an interventional radiology suite, a neurointerventional suite, a radiology fluoroscopy unit, two cardiology laboratories, and two urology fluoroscopy units. The full study is available here.
AuntMinnie
DECEMBER 12, 2023
More than nine in 10 pediatric radiologists reported that nonphysician providers are used often in the subspecialty, suggest findings published December 10 in the Journal of the American College of Radiology. Academic practices accounted for 56% of settings hiring pediatric radiologists, the team reported.
AuntMinnie
SEPTEMBER 23, 2024
"If private practices don't thrive and don't survive, then everyone has to become an employee at some point, and the leverage we have and negotiating power of radiologists goes away." Sixty-six percent of radiologists are working full-time before retirement which means that fully a third are on part-time schedules."
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