What’s interventional radiology (IR)?
Interventional radiology is the clinical subspecialty that uses fluoroscopy (live X-ray), CT, and ultrasound to guide percutaneous (under the skin) procedures such as performing biopsies, draining fluids, inserting catheters, or dilating or stenting narrowed ducts or vessels. But what does this mean to you? Getting the word out “Interventional radiology has never really been a field that promoted itself,” says Dr. John Racadio, Chief of Interventional Radiology at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC), “people just don’t know anything about it.” Dr. Racadio has been a pioneer in the development of interventional radiology (IR) for pediatric applications. He describes it like this, “I tell my patients interventional radiology is minimally-invasive, image guided treatment. We have the ability to collect, interpret and understand images of your body. We use that ability to perform image guided minimally-invasive procedures.” The benefits of IR Take for example a ruptured a
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- If a patient goes to Interventional Radiology (IR) for declotting, the procedure is unsuccessful and the patient is admitted to the hospital for surgical intervention, how are the services paid?
- If a patient is clotted and goes to Interventional Radiology (IR) for declotting only and has a dialysis treatment the next day, does payment for the declot come out of the Composite Rate?
- What’s interventional radiology (IR)?
