Radiology Business July 13, 2023
Private practice and academic interventional radiology groups are making ample use of advanced-practice providers to handle procedures and other billable work, with a few notable differences.
That’s according to new analysis of survey data, published July 8 in the Journal of Radiology Nursing [1]. Both practice models are using APPs to generate similar work relative value units and revenue totals. However, academia reported using “significantly greater” full-time APPs (at about four on average) when compared to their counterparts in private practice (about two), a trend that held true even when adjusting for practice size.
Academic advance-practice providers were more likely to perform venous tunneled catheter and access-port placement than peers working in private practice. Conversely, the latter were likelier to...
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