Clinical practice
Celebrating rural health day
Interventional radiologists have a unique ability to bridge the gaps in access to care for rural communities.
Nov 19, 2025
What kind of guideline should you use?
Luke Wilkins, MD, FSIR, the councilor of the Guidelines and Statements division, discusses the various document types, how they’re developed and how they can best inform IR therapies and practices.
Nov 11, 2025
The trouble with triage
After realizing that IRs have struggled to build consensus around a triage protocol, two researchers have launched a survey on IR triaging, with the hope of establishing a standardized system.
Oct 23, 2025
Building a pAVF program
SIR’s Renal and Genitourinary Clinical Specialty Council has established a society-based consensus recommendations for the creation and maturation of pAVFs for hemodialysis access.
Oct 21, 2025
Coding Q&A
When a bilateral pulmonary artery thrombectomy is performed for a saddle embolus seen on CTA chest, what are the appropriate codes to report?
Oct 21, 2025
Coding Q&A
Radioembolization of a hepatic tumor and percutaneous endoscopic gallstone removal
May 22, 2025
The benefits of IR code simulation
Interventional radiology team members at the University of Rochester Medical Center in Rochester, NY, have implemented a cardiac arrest model and code simulation to improve timing, accuracy and staff comfort.
May 22, 2025
Coding Q&A
What are the new Category I codes relevant to interventional radiology?
Feb 20, 2025
Coding Q&A
There are three new Category III codes that are relevant to interventional radiology with different effective dates.
Nov 21, 2024
Coding guidance for selective internal radiation therapy (SIRT) with Y-90
Updated guidance which expands on planar imaging and SPECT CT codes for nuclear medicine imaging during the mapping process and when to use CPT® codes 78801,78830-78832, or 78835.
Sep 13, 2024
Episode 70: Call and work coverage with Elizabeth A. Ignacio, MD, FSIR
In this episode, Mark L. Lessne, MD, FSIR, speaks with Elizabeth A. Ignacio, MD, FSIR, on how she handles working in a small and rural practice in Hawaii, lessons she learned while paving her own path and how she created an IR LLC.
