Saving Private Practice: Size and Sustainability in the 21st Century.

Abstract

The landscape of US radiology has changed substantially in just a few decades. One of the most profound changes is in the size of private practice groups. Sunshine and Bansal [1] reported that in 1989, “almost half of U.S. radiology groups had two to four radiologists, almost one-fourth had five to seven radiologists, 12% had eight to 10 radiologists, and 14% had 11 or more.” The authors further noted that this had been stable since 1986. Fast-forwarding to the past decade, the picture was substantially different in 2014.