Board Certified Radiology Physician Services (Telemedicine)

Posterity Group LLC is a veteran owned, service-disabled small business, headquartered in Rockville, MD, that specializes in federal government contracting and staffing. We are tasked with staffing the Augusta VAMC with Board Certified Radiology Physicians. The Physician is expected to perform the following:

• Interpret imaging exams in general radiology (including fluoroscopy), body imaging (CT, MR, US) and in nuclear medicine (including PET/CT). Performs gastrointestinal and genitourinary exams with contrast material.
• Review radiology requests for appropriateness, respond to consults timely, prescribe exam protocols, review image quality and provide feedback to the technical staff, obtain informed consent, coordinate clinical care, communicate urgent findings timely, writes notes in the EMR, enters orders in the EMR, responds to clinical emergencies.
• Interact with patients to obtain relevant clinical history and physical exam findings within the scope of radiology practice.
• Provide clinical oversight of medication administration, including contrast material and other medications relevant to practice of diagnostic radiology.
• Participate in the quality assurance programs such as peer review and performance improvement.
• Participate in all teaching programs and in clinical conferences such as tumor boards.
• Other duties as assigned by the Chief of Service.

THIS IS A REMOTE POSITION - WITHIN THE US

Scope:

• The teleradiologist will be available by telephone for consultation to the ordering physician, both before the study is ordered in order to determine the most appropriate procedure, and after the study is performed to discuss the interpretation.
• The teleradiologist will be provided with the telephone or pager number of the treating team so that emergent findings may be communicated directly at the time of interpretation.
• STAT studies will be read, and the interpretation returned, within a specified time period from receipt of the study.
• Written final reports will be transcribed, and verified by the teleradiologist (electronically signed) within a specified time from completion of the study. If teleradiologists use their own transcription service, they are responsible for timeliness of the transcription.
• When providing teleradiology interpretation of digital mammography images, the teleradiologist must comply with the patient notification and reporting requirements of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA).
• It is strongly recommended that radiology reports be entered directly into the Radiology Reports section of the VA electronic medical record as text, and electronically signed by the interpreting radiologist. This may most conveniently be achieved if the teleradiologist uses the same transcription service as the ordering facility.
• Document any significant discrepancies between the preliminary and final report in the final report, and the treating team so notified.
• The Physician providing teleradiology interpretation may temporarily store copies of reports and images, but must delete or destroy all copies after the contract has expired, excepting records required for billing and reimbursement purposes, or expecting records for which the patient has requested a release of information that would authorize the interpreting facility to retain those records.

Physician Owned Minimum Equipment Standards

The workstation must accurately associate patient demographics with patient images. The workstation must be able to display the following parameters for each image: patient name, social security number, study date and time, the use of compression (if any), overlays including demographics and anatomic labels, clinically relevant technical parameters, as well as the series number and image number within the series. The workstation must be able to display the case or accession number for each study.

Luminance of gray-scale monitors should be at least 50 foot-lamberts. For small matrix images (Sonography, CT, MR, Nuclear Medicine, Fluoroscopy), the workstation monitor(s) must able to display the entire matrix at full resolution, with at least 8-pixel bit depth. For large matrix images (Radiography), resolution of the workstation monitor(s) must be at least 2 mega pixel, with at least 8 -bit depth. If images were acquired with color, at least one monitor of the workstation should be capable of displaying color.

The workstation must be able to select studies, series, and images for display, and to compare different studies or series by displaying them simultaneously.

The workstation must be capable of window and level, pan and zoom, rotation and flip, as well as measurement of length and pixel value.

Quality control. There must be documented policies and procedures to ensure proper performance of the system, monitor calibration, data integrity, and data back-up.

Requirements

• Degree of Doctor of Medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
• Current, full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State, Territory, or Commonwealth of the United States, or in the District of Columbia.
• Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training, approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification.
• Proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Board Certification/ Eligible

Salary Description

$475,500 - $490,750