Compensation

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.

Cardiologists scramble to prepare for mandatory heart failure payment model
Samuel Jones, MD, reviews some of the biggest concerns about a new Medicare payment model focused on heart failure care that goes live in 2027.
Radiologists earning an average of $571,000, up 9% year over year
The figure places the specialty third among medicine’s highest earners, behind only orthopedics ($611,000) and cardiology ($575,000), Medscape reports.
LucidHealth rebrands its teleradiology services division
The Columbus, Ohio-based imaging group is repositioning the business to “strengthen brand visibility, clarify service offerings and support long-term growth in an increasingly competitive radiology marketplace.”
Did you make the list? CMS targets cardiologists for new heart failure payment model
More than 2,000 cardiologists are required to participate in the new payment model. According to CMS, the long-term goal is to track and reduce the high healthcare costs associated with treating heart failure.
Practices must address on-call disparities between diagnostic and interventional radiologists, experts charge
Amid work-from-home disparities between interventional and diagnostic rads, researchers recently interviewed hundreds of IRs to learn about the landscape.

An increased need for specialists boosted radiologist salaries by 12%, according to new report

The report placed radiologists’ annual compensation 6th among the top 10 highest physician salaries.

Radiologist starting salaries up 13.5% over last year

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

Association exec: Proposed PFS stands to do ‘incalculable damage to the medical profession’

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.

Industry leader rips into 'disastrous' proposed Medicare reimbursement cuts

“CMS couldn’t have picked a worse time to cut Medicare payments to physicians,” said RBMA Executive Director Bob Still.

7 points of light for new radiologists weighing subspecialist vs. generalist paths

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.

Radiology contributes less than thought to the national healthcare spend

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.

Have radiologists' salaries kept up with their workloads? New survey offers detailed insight

Unique to radiologists is that their workloads have not yet declined to the pre-pandemic levels seen in 2019 like other specialties have started to witness.

Radiologist pay, productivity jostled by pandemic recovery, CMS coding changes

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.

Compensation

Cardiologists scramble to prepare for mandatory heart failure payment model

Radiologists earning an average of $571,000, up 9% year over year

LucidHealth rebrands its teleradiology services division

Did you make the list? CMS targets cardiologists for new heart failure payment model

Practices must address on-call disparities between diagnostic and interventional radiologists, experts charge