Abstract No. 256 Current State of Practice Productivity in IR: Results from the A Comparative Survey Between Private Practice and Academic IR

To compare private vs academic IR practice productivity across the US as part of the Second Annual IR Benchmarking Survey. A 60-question survey was distributed to 3,159 self-identified interventional radiologists in the United States from the Society of Interventional Radiologists (SIR) doctor finder, with 358 responses (11% response rate). Of these responses, there were 258 unique practices from 34 U.S. states, including 44% managing partner/IR chief, 52% non-partner/chief IR physicians, and 1% practice manager. Based on 82 practice responses, physicians in academic and private IR practices generated similar amounts of wRVUs, with academic interventional radiologists generating 42,000 and private interventional radiologists generating 31,000 wRVUs (P = 0.11). Annual wRVUs/cFTE trended higher for private practice (9600 vs 6220) without statistical significance (P = 0.06). In addition, academic and private IR physicians reported similar levels of total wRVU production generated from Evaluation and Management (E&M) at 8% and 7% respectively (P = 0.48; n = 127). Meanwhile, wRVU production from procedures varied significantly, with 85% of academic wRVU production and 67% private practice wRVU production being tied to procedures (P< 0.001; n = 127). Private practices generated more wRVU production from interpretation of diagnostic imaging, at 26% of total wRVU production compared with 7% of total wRVU production for academic practices (P< 0.001; n = 127). Reported practice productivity is similar between academic and private IR practices in the United States, however, with greater wRVU composition from diagnostic interpretation and less from IR procedures in private practice.