JACR asked three experts on radiologist compensation for a written answer to a pressing question: In creating the ideal practice-level P4P program in 2022, what elements must be considered, avoided and emphasized?

Patients who receive physical therapy for low back pain within two weeks of symptom onset pay significantly smaller healthcare bills at the 30-day and one-year marks than patients who wait longer for PT or never receive it. 

Bob Still, executive director of the Radiologist Business Management Association, believes CMS’s proposed physician fee schedule for 2023 will harm vulnerable populations and seriously injure U.S. healthcare. Hear him out.

Radiology researchers from six leading medical schools have laid out some attuned and readily adoptable strategies for groups challenged to prosper in a time of difficult reimbursement dynamics.

Reviewing a 20-month run with a radiologist-to-technologist communications tool, researchers have found minor problems with image quality 10 times more common than patient callbacks for repeat imaging.