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.

Radiologists are receiving salary offers averaging $455,000 to start a new job in 2022, up from $401,000 in 2021.  

Last week the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services posted a tentative Physician Fee Schedule for 2023. Initial reactions from radiology were muted. That changed this Wednesday.

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.

An analysis of CMS data has shown radiology had little to do with increases in Medicare costs over a 10-year period ending in 2019.

Diagnostic radiology saw its median compensation rise just 1.6% from 2020 to 2021. On the other hand, interventional radiology enjoyed a 9.9% raise. 

MRI techs earned an average of $76,177 in 2019 and are making $82,395 in 2022. In fact, radiologic technologists across all modalities enjoyed a collective raise of 11.2% during that window.