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Community hospital scores $4M award to beef up interventional radiology services

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NYC Health + Hospitals said the money will allow it to provide patients with access to a “state of the art” suite for IR procedures.

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The Society of Interventional Radiology 2024 Gold Medals and Charles T. Dotter Lecture Delivered at Annual Meeting

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milla1cf Mon, 03/25/2024 - 06:00 March 25, 2024 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) presented its highest honor, the SIR Gold Medal , to Fred T. These awards acknowledge distinguished and extraordinary service to SIR or to the specialty of interventional radiology. MD ; Albert A. Nemcek, Jr.,

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Society of Interventional Radiology Names Robert J. Lewandowski, MD, FSIR, President for 2024–2025

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Sabri, MD, FSIR , MedStar Georgetown University Hospital ; and Immediate Past-president Alda L. Lookstein, MD, FSIR , Mount Sinai Health System and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York; newly appointed Secretary Saher S. Tam, MD, MBA, FSIR , The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center , Houston.

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Society of Interventional Radiology Foundation Honors Innovation with Annual Awards

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milla1cf Mon, 03/25/2024 - 07:00 March 25, 2024 — The Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Foundation today presented the Leader in Innovation Award to Suresh Vedantham , MD, FSIR , during SIR’s Annual Scientific Meeting in Salt Lake City. He is the current president of the Southeastern Angiographic Society (SEAS).

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Walmart donates $5M to help hospital in its home state open interventional radiology suite

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Prior to adding the IR facility, Mercy said it believes potential patients were traveling outside the region to obtain IR services.

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Ala. health system advisers get interventional radiology earful

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Medicaid reimbursement, cost-saving, and radiologist recruitment issues are contributing to a drastic reduction of interventional radiology services in Tuscaloosa, home to the University of Alabama, and surrounding communities. Others quoted by the Alabama Daily News report cited Medicaid reimbursement as a factor.

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The Irreplaceable Radiologist

Ben White

Hospitals quite literally cannot operate beyond a few hours without diagnostic radiology. Hospital systems simply have no leverage against their radiologists except fear of the unknown. Negotiations with the hospital have yielded minimal results. We are the bottleneck for all inpatient care. What is a group to do?