Teleradiology/Radiologist - Full Service

Developing the Optimal Teleradiology Agreement for rapid, cost effective, specialty specific, remote read MRI imaging interpretations, and securing Supervising Radiologist Assistance for your MRI Imaging Center.
- Module #11

In the creation of the successful MRI Imaging Center, it is important to discuss with MRI project clients, the negotiation and use of a teleradiology group with radiologists available who are certified specifically in the scan interpretation of patient type(s) you will be scanning, such as MSK, Brain, Spine, etc.  We work with our MRI Imaging center clients to provide consultation and negotiation assistance to arrive at a written agreement with a leading teleradiology firm to an agreed upon per read fee amount, agreed upon report response time back to the MRI Imaging Center, and a commitment to provide IDTF or medical group, supervising radiologist coverage. This is  consistent with the MRI Imaging Center accreditation needs, and regulatory supervisory requirements.

We have assisted our clients in this process with great success and can normally arrive at a per read fee, that is nationally very competitive, and a true best case scenario. Creating a cost effective, fast clinical interpretation turnaround, and high quality remote teleradiology agreement for your MRI Imaging Center is pivotal to your success. This high quality Teleradiology Agreement is crucial in obtaining stellar clinical interpretations, results in high physician satisfaction and is crucial to patient and technologist customer service. This is also an area in which we have always excelled! With each MRI Imaging Center that we work with, we carefully match the teleradiology radiology provider group, to the clinical needs, financial requirements, and customer service response needs of the ordering physicians and client group.

The teleradiology business is very competitive these days, and the ordering physician need for the highest quality, most accurate radiologist interpretation for the patient scan is of paramount importance. In the past, I had been involved with the creation of a Breast and Mammography Imaging Center. As such, I became convinced the remote read radiologist should be double board certified, both in Radiology, and specifically in Breast Radiology, and that option was possible with leading edge teleradiology groups. In the MRI Imaging centers that we consult for, we work to put remote read teleradiology agreements in place between consulting clients and teleradiology groups that can offer double board certified radiologists (Both certified radiologist, and your specialty need, i.e., MSK  or Spine, or Neuro, etc.), for the same nationally competitive teleradiology read fee amounts. It is the state of the industry, and I believe it further assists in the highest quality teleradiology interpretations, whatever your specialty.

In addition, as you need to pass accreditation with the MRI accreditation body that you choose, and as your Imaging Entity requires a supervising radiologist, we have high quality teleradiology groups that we work with that provide the supervising radiologist coverage for our client groups, and even assist with the process of preparing your MRI Imaging Center technologist staff for all of the steps necessary to submit studies and paperwork for MRI accreditation. In addition, the teleradiology groups that we work with, have been of such high quality, and the technologists on site that we have found for our clients have been of such high quality, the centers we work with have completed full MRI Imaging Center accreditation (ACR) with scores of 100%, and no conditions. Which is of course, as good as it gets! If you want your MRI Imaging Center to be fully accredited, without conditions, especially with ACR, you will want to contact our group for assistance.

In addition, we have also successfully negotiated with our teleradiology groups for our clients, competitive annual archive fees per study. We can assist you in this area as well.

Consistent with the information we have provided, as it relates to the development of a top tier, nationally competitive, teleradiology agreement between the MRI Imaging Centers that we consult for, and a leading teleradiology group that we work with, I think you will be very impressed with what we can accomplish for your Imaging Center.

We really can develop the Optimal Teleradiology Agreement for rapid, cost effective, specialty specific remote read MRI Interpretation, and securing Supervising Radiologist assistance, for your MRI Imaging Center!

In this Consultation and Assistance Module we will address

*Type of client group that we are working with, are you; IDTF, single specialty medical practice, multi-specialty medical practice, ASC, or other?

*Understanding and review that we can provide the following services.

-Review and Negotiate competitive remote read fees

-Review and Obtain Supervising Radiologist services

-Obtain Supervising Radiologist assistance for your MRI Technologist in submitting forms and studies to MRI accreditation bodies, and in particular, American College of  Radiology (ACR)

-Review and Obtain agreements to Archive annual MRI studies

*We can answer questions of all types, regarding this area of assistance and efforts to date on behalf of other client groups.

*We can also review any teleradiology agreements that you have negotiated and offer assistance in whatever manner is most beneficial to you and your team.

*Assistance with setting up the teleradiology send File, and Receive report with Teleradiology Group.

*Working with the Field Engineering Team for your MRI Manufacturer, and the Teleradiology IT department before MRI ramp up, to ensure and test for seamless, error free, high speed IT connectivity and DICOM send and receive function that is intact and functioning without file issues.