Crash course on IR finance

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

Location:Phoenix Convention Center, 231C

CE: 1.5 Credits

Coordinator(s)

Premal Trivedi, MD

Assistant Professor of Radiology
University of Colorado School of Medicine

Disclosure(s): Fortec: Consultant (Ongoing), Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); Pneumonix: Board Membership (Ongoing)
Seetharam Chadalavada, MD, MS

Vice Chair of Radiology, Associate Professor Radiology & Surgery
University of Cincinnati | UC Health

Disclosure(s): Argon Medical: Consultant (Ongoing); Cook Medical: Consultant (Ongoing), Independent Contractor (Ongoing), Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); Fortec: Consultant (Ongoing), Independent Contractor (Ongoing), Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); phillips/volcano/Spectranetics: Consultant (Ongoing), Independent Contractor (Ongoing), Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing)

Disclosure(s):

Premal Trivedi, MD: Fortec: Consultant (Ongoing), Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); Pneumonix: Board Membership (Ongoing)

Seetharam Chadalavada, MD, MS: Argon Medical: Consultant (Ongoing); Cook Medical: Consultant (Ongoing), Independent Contractor (Ongoing), Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); Fortec: Consultant (Ongoing), Independent Contractor (Ongoing), Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing); phillips/volcano/Spectranetics: Consultant (Ongoing), Independent Contractor (Ongoing), Speaking and Teaching (Ongoing)

This course provides a high-yield financial review of the modern interventional radiology practice. It will include perspectives on right sizing IR team personnel, best practices for hospital- and office-based billing, along with a review of the economic landscape of IR billing and how it is projected to change. The session will finish with a debate on the ideal model for non-hospital IR practice.

Learning Objectives:

Understand basics of financial models supporting care provided by interventional radiologists
Understand how to optimize reimbursement in the hospital- and office based- settings
Understand how reimbursement is projected to change and develop ideas on how to adapt proactively to the future

Presentations:

1:00 PM – 1:15 PM

Right sizing your team
Speaker: Abouelmagd Makramalla, MD (he/him/his) – University of Cincinnati
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM

OBL: the secret sauce
Speaker: Michelle Maneevese, MD (she/her/hers) – Access Vascular Health
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM

Optimizing hospital-based IR billing
Speaker: Sarah B. White, MD, MS, FSIR – Medical College of Wisconsin
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM

Increasing IR revenue: Role of E/M services & New Service Lines
Speaker: Julie C. Bulman, MD – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School
2:00 PM – 2:20 PM

Debate: value and reimbursement are best aligned in the OBL vs. hospital setting
Speaker: Kavi Devulapalli, MD MPH – Image-Guided Surgery PLLC
Speaker: Francis R. Facchini, MD, FSIR – Varian Interventional Solutions, a Siemens Healthineers Company
2:20 PM – 2:30 PM

Q & A