Radiology compensation is more than just radiologist salaries. It also includes radiologic technologist and interventional radiology compensation, along with other subspecialties. Radiology pay incorporates bonuses, incentives, benefits and vacation time.
This included about 33% of rads polled, who said their year-over-year compensation has remained flat, while 9% reported a decrease, according to Medscape.
Marit Health compiled the rankings based on 5,000 job listings, separating its lists based on practice settings including academia, hospital systems, medical groups and remote reading.
Minnesota’s Twin Cities were labeled as the best geography for radiologists to land a gig, ahead of Dallas-Fort Worth and Portland, Oregon, according to Marit Health.
Warning that proposed new cuts in Medicare reimbursement could afflict U.S. healthcare with “severe and permanent damage,” the Radiology Business Management Association has presented CMS with detailed recommendations for stopping such a dire scenario from arising.
Last week CMS dug in with its decision to put off finalizing an alternative value-based payment model for radiation oncology services to “a date to be determined through future rulemaking.”
Payers have been using rates agreed to by PCPs to justify underpaying specialists such as anesthesiologists, emergency physicians and, yes, radiologists.
Cardiologists are the highest paid professionals in medicine, averaging $170 per hour for an annual average salary of $353,970, according to a new Forbes report.
When emergency radiologists overread interpretations of critically ill transfer patients, they discover discrepancies in fewer than 15% of cases. However, more than 90% of these second opinions produce a change in patient care or follow-up.
Having cervical spine radiographs completed at an urgent care rather than a cervical CT scan in the emergency department, one hospital system saved an estimated $437,928 in healthcare costs in one year.
