Society of Radiology Physician Extenders

Job Opportunity in Colorado

Colorado Imaging Associates is a centura hospital system-based practice covering for Denver metro locations. We are a 32 physican group that served our hospital system for 50 years.

We are seeking a full time RPA/RRA to work with a team of RPA's and PA's. We offer health, dental, vision, life insurance programs, generous PTO, paid holidays. CME allowance and has a robust 401K profit sharing plan.

Color Preferred Job Skills:

General fluoroscopy
Joint injection/aspiration/arthrogram
Upper GI
Small Bowel and Barium Enema
Lumbar Puncture
Loopograms
Lumbar Myelography
Fistulagram
Abcessogram
HSG
Cytogram/Cystourethrogram/Retro Cystography
Nephrostogram
Barium Swallow and Modified Barium Swallow

All candidates must have completed fluoro, Arthrograms, LP, Myelogram and Hysterograms within the last year. Candidates must be willing to cover different locations/rotations. We offer excellent compensation and benefits with a healthy work/life balanced schedule.

Colorado is home to a wonderful climate with all four seasons, the extensive outdoor recreation that Colorado has to offer year-round and a host of social activities throughout the region.

Please submit resume to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or fax to 303.416.1058

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22^nd Annual SRPE Educational Conference coming soon.

The 2021 Conference will be in Virtual Format. More details coming soon.

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SRPE Virtual Business Meeting

The Annual Business meeting was held virtually via Zoom on 09/09/2020 at 6:00pm CST, The meeting was recorded for those who could not attend.

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Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act 2019- HR 1970/ S1544

April 25, 2019

Rep. Mike Doyle introduced H.R. 1970, the Medicare Access to Radiology Care Act, on March 28, 2019. The legislation would allow radiologists to submit claims to Medicare for non-imaging services performed by radiologist assistants in hospital and office settings, as well as imaging services in hospitals. Reps. Pete Olson, Ron Kind, Greg Gianforte, John Sarbanes, and Terri Sewell serve as co-sponsors of the bipartisan bill.

Senator Boozman (R-AR) and Senator Casey (D-PA) also introduced S1544 a companion MARCA Bill in the Senate.

If enacted, MARCA would offer Medicare recognition of RAs as midlevel providers of health care services working under the supervision of a radiologist. The MARCA bill is another positive step toward RA recognition at the federal level. In November 2018, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services revised the Physician Fee Schedule to allow RAs to practice under “direct supervision” levels. The change followed significant advocacy efforts targeting CMS by SRPE and other radiology stakeholders.

Please contact your Representatives to co-sponsor this important legislation. A sample letter can be found here and maybe modified for your practice.

The SRPE, ARRT, and ASRT is organizing a RA on the Hill day in Washington DC for May 20-21st, to run in conjunction with the ACR's Hill Day which is May 22nd.The SRPE would like to ask that you contact your Congressperson's district offices those days and ask him/her to cosponsor HR 1970 MARCA.

CMS Final Rule Guiding Documents Released

December 22, 2018

On November 1, 2018, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized a policy in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) which decreases regulatory burden for the radiology care team.

Specifically, the final rule provides that, effective for services furnished on or after January 1, 2019, diagnostic tests requiring personal physician supervision may be performed under direct physician supervision when furnished by a radiologist assistant (RA) either certified as a registered radiologist assistant (R.R.A.) who is certified by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists, or a radiology practitioner assistant (RPA) who is certified by the Certification Board for Radiology Practitioner Assistants to the extent permitted by state law and state scope of practice regulations.

According to Pam Kassing, ACR Senior Economics Advisor, the only thing that can not be billed to Medicare by the radiology practice is procedures (CPT codes 10000-69999) done by RAs on Medicare patients in the hospital setting. However, the RAs can legally practice and do all procedures. The radiology groups and hospitals can bill everything to the private payers. Legislation is still needed for radiology groups to bill Medicare for procedures (CPT codes 10000-69999) in the hospital setting.

For proper coding and billing, the radiologist should include in the report-"Procedure performed by (RA's name and credentials) under the (personal, direct, general) supervision of (radiologist's name and credentials)."

The SRPE, ACR, ARRT, and ASRT has developed an Q&A document to help answer some of the questions regarding the implementation of the Final Rule. In the Q&A document, there is also a chart describing billing for each practice setting, employer of the RA (group or hospital), and test or procedure. As the SRPE gets more information we will publish additional guidance.

See the full Q&A document here

See a Document on "Incident to Rules"

See all documents available for download regarding the CMS rule here

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