In our bizarre world of getting paid not for what we do but rather why we did it, we often find ourselves holding the bag when a referrer ordered a study that the insurer decided was “inappropriate.”

The more advanced and more complicated the disease process, the more likely the patient will end up with surgery and/or amputation, increasing the cost of initial care and the additional intervention.

In an environment where competition is increasing, branding your practice can be very useful. Here's how.

The problem with making rules that define cheating is that he who makes the rules needs to have a plan of action to enforce them.

If those of us who are in positions to evaluate and review hiring policies do not take a significant role in ensuring a level playing field then we are truly to blame.

In reality any radiology resident or radiologist who has taken the oral or written board examinations knows the use of recalls occurs.

There are chemicals (neurotransmitters and otherwise) central to the physiological process of pain, and I envision an imaging modality that could depict where in the body these chemicals are active.

Here's what you need to know when donating functional, outdated imaging equipment.

“Clinical correlation is recommended.” Them’s fighting words, in the right environments. Some clinicians react about as warmly to this phrase as they would to an extended middle digit or an unflattering maternal reference.

Unhealthy referral relationships can drag on in radiology, but there are often valid reasons to dissolve the partnership.

If this is the last year you are alive, would you do what you are about to do? If not, make some changes.

I’ve noticed an unsettlingly growing trend, in which I reach a clinician to communicate results of an imaging study on one of their patients… and the clinician refuses to take those results. This is the ugly successor to an older (yet ongoing) issue, in which I can’t get ahold of anyone at all regarding a patient, whether to give results, to better protocol a study, or simply to get some clinical history beyond “R/O pathology.”

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