“When choosing a role, radiologists should consider their unique strengths, availability, and personal and financial risk tolerance," experts advised. 

The deal covers the independent hospital's main facility, several community sites and five walk-in care centers, Commonwealth Radiology Associates announced. 

Desert Radiology, which joined Rad Partners in 2019, had handled a “significant” number of scans at University Medical Center of Southern Nevada annually. 

Those include the nation’s most populace state, which employs 1,700 members of the specialty earning $339,140 annually. 

"Since several states are shifting toward granting NPPs more autonomy, this is something worth watching," the study's author told Radiology Business. 

When matched by gender and career length, nonemergency rads are nearly twice as likely to be promoted to associate professor. 

Recently trained radiologists are likely to weigh this factor when considering which direction to take their careers, researchers wrote in JACR. 

Group practice leaders making hiring decisions may benefit from learning more about the FMLA and adopting such policies, experts advised. 

Only 16% of women across five U.S. medical schools said they were strongly considering an IR career compared to 27% of men.

Traditional approaches don’t allow for the collection of structured data to gauge progress, experts wrote in Academic Radiology.