Radiologists Shortage versus Radiologist Salary
March 16, 2011 www.HealthImagingHub.com
The shortage of radiologists was recently recognized in several countries, for instance, the United States have been facing a significant shortage in radiologists since 2000, which made a large number of healthcare settings use telemedicine and remote radiology services to overcome this issue. Some hospitals even had to deal with teleradiology centers outside the United States in order to be able to complete interpretation and diagnosis of its radiology images. The current demand on radiologists and radiology technicians resulted in significant increase in radiology salaries, a diagnostic radiologist would have a salary ranging from $227,000 to $317,000 a year, Interventional radiologists on the other hand have higher salaries with a range of $286,500 to $401,000. It is also known that the highest radiology salaries are provided in Southern US while the lowest are on the Eastern regions of the country.