@DrPayItBack It’s a big issue that is not honestly talked about often enough in private practice radiology- a lot of groups pay partners equally regardless of RVU productivity. You can imagine the incentives for different rads may not align with the group at large.
@benwhitemd The only bit I know is that they bought a local practice in Madison WI where I trained, and of course people still on the partner track got screwed. Nothing new under the sun when it comes to PE.
@benwhitemd Most of the time I look at the prior images anyway. Especially for spine MRI. Some prior reports were just unreadable so I didn’t bother reading them.
Lumbar spine MRI is fast evolving into the musculoskeletal analogue of serial thyroid ultrasound surveillance
Soon we will see:
“ Stable right neuroforaminal stenosis at L3/L4. Stable Modic 2 changes at L4/L5 endplates.
L-spine, rads category 1
Continue annual lumbar spine MRIs for surveillance”
@northwoods1980@teachplaygrub We should be doing spine MRI with prone, supine and bilateral lateral decubitus. Plus flexion and extension. Is that what you’re saying? Let’s doooooo it
What happened when a high-performing radiology practice (academic center) deployed AI for intracranial hemorrhage detection (aidoc)? Performance regressed toward mediocrity (slightly) and interpretation took (insignificantly) longer. Buyer beware!