If you’re a Medicare beneficiary, depending on your location, there’s as much as a 20% chance an NP or PA (not a physician/radiologist!) will interpret your imaging study. New work out today by our @UMMCRads and @NeimanHPI team. 🧵Below. 1/11 @UMMCRads @NeimanHPI @JACRJournal @UMMCnews @RadiologyACR @Dx_imaging @AuntMinnie @HealthImaging @TheImagingWire @amykpatel @MarilynHeineMD Prior work has shown that nearly all hospital-based imaging is interpreted by radiologists, so we focused on outpatient office-based imaging, a far less regulated Wild West. We used Medicare claims data from 2013-2022 to identify all non-invasive diagnostic imaging claims. 2/11

Say what you want about it, good or bad, but private equity is increasingly influencing radiology. I'm no poet so asked #ChatGPT to write this one. AI seems to know what's going on. A thread. 1/ Radiologists, skilled and bright,
Fulfilling their calling, day and night.
But now behold, a shift in the tide,
Private equity's reach, cannot be denied. 2/

I asked @OpenAI's ChatGPT to write a poem about radiology pre-authorization. Clearly, it's spent enough time on hold to have hit a home run. A thread... 1/ @OpenAI Radiology Benefits Management, a daunting foe,
Seeking pre-authorization, a relentless show.
The frustration mounts, as time ticks away,
Dealing with the hurdles, day after day. 2/

New paper from our @NeimanHPI team in @JACRJournal. Characteristics of NPs and PAs working in radiology practices. A short thread. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…. 1/ @NeimanHPI @JACRJournal @StefanMarchello @arosenkrantzmd @ericrubinmd @EmoryRadiology @UMMCRads @danortizmd @amykpatel @GATechEcon This builds on our recent paper looking at radiology practices (showing that they’re hiring more and more NPs and PAs). The focus here is different: we study the characteristics of those NPs and PAs. jacr.org/article/S1546-…. 2/