Staffing

This channel provides news on management of staff and proper staffing levels for safe, high-quality healthcare system. Physician and clinician workforce shortages have become growing challenge for hospitals, with burnout also now affecting nearly all medical workers. Topics include medical staffing issues, statistics, compensation how to improve clinician morale and the workplace environment, and ways to combat clinician burnout.

Radiology rises into 10 highest paid specialties with average compensation of $503,564

The number represents a roughly 1.6% uptick from the radiologist salary figure recorded in the previous Doximity survey. 

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IR proves strong on practicality, profitability—but some cost-inclusive metrics remain to be shown

Recent evidence confirms that interventional radiology produces solid clinical outcomes while beating surgery on the cost-effectiveness of numerous procedures.

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Practice leaders must take ‘urgent action’ to address moral distress in radiology

This dilemma occurs when providers knows the right thing to do for a patient, but institutional constraints prevent them.

Multispecialty physician groups oppose FTC proposal to ban noncompete clauses

Meanwhile, the commission called such agreements an “exploitative practice that suppresses wages, hampers innovation, and blocks entrepreneurs from starting new businesses."

Radiology provider Akumin hampered by ‘unprecedented’ cost inflation, clinical labor shortages

“Despite these challenges, we were able to deliver solid performance and have positioned the business for strong organic growth," said CEO Riadh Zine. 

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State radiological society earns $20,000 grant to help fight ‘harmful’ scope-of-practice bills

The American College of Radiology Association announced the news Friday, with the money coming from its special fund established in 2021. 

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Another ‘record’ Match Day, with strong interest in diagnostic and interventional radiology

A total of 42,952 applicants certified a rank-order list in 2023, marking the largest match in the National Resident Matching Program's 70-year history.

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Radiologists lobby for state bill that would ease tax burden of docs who treat certain patients

“Many private practice physicians and providers that I know are operating on smaller and smaller margins due to cuts in reimbursements," said radiologist Andrew Kayes, MD.