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.

Payers have been using rates agreed to by PCPs to justify underpaying specialists such as anesthesiologists, emergency physicians and, yes, radiologists.

For years radiology educators have been reassuring prospects, recruits and trainees that artificial intelligence can only—and will only—assist or augment radiologists. And still a nervous concern continues to come up. 

An educational outfit has sprung up to equip nonphysicians working in radiology—chiefly administrators, business managers and technologists—with radiologist-level fluency in AI.

To subspecialize or not to subspecialize? That’s a crucial question for radiology trainees who are finishing their residency but have yet to settle on a lifelong career path.