DOTmed April 18, 2025
When I attended last year’s RSNA conference, one topic was consistently discussed: what is equitable distribution in radiology workloads? What constitutes “equitable and fair?”
For a long time, relative value units (RVUs) have been the benchmark for determining which cases get assigned to which radiologists. RVUs are important for revenue and the practice’s financial health, which I recently noted will take on even greater importance this year.
But is RVU everything? Could it be doing more harm than good?
Workload distribution is burning people out. I hear too often about radiologists who feel like they’re taken advantage of in their practices, that they’re doing more work than others, and that their work isn’t valued as highly since it generates less...







