Fall 2025 Features


13 Practice resources


13 Navigating claims: Appealing denials directly to a Medicare judge By Andre Uflacker, MD


15 Coding Q&A: Coding for a bilateral pulmonary artery thrombectomy 16


Building a pAVF program: Behind the scenes of the new SIR practice guidance document By Bart L. Dolmatch, MD, FSIR, and Andrew J. Gunn, MD, FSIR


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Surveying the landscape 18


The trouble with triage: Establishing a standardized triage protocol By Jason Chiang, MD, PhD, and Elena Drews, MD


20 The Rush roadmap: Creating an independent academic IR practice By Brian Haefs


23 The lone IR: What happens when you’re the only radiologist left? By Hope Racine


26 Practice profile: J. Kevin McGraw, MD, RPVI, FSIR, Riverside Radiology and Interventional Associates, Columbus, Ohio


Columns 6


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President’s column: The independent IR practice


Director’s column IR up front


27 Funding opportunities: Supporting leadership opportunities for women with GCAW


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Inside access: Percutaneous pelvic cementoplasty with or without screw fixation; radiofrequency ablation in the management of extensive multinodular goiter


37 QI forum: How many IR suites are needed at your hospital?


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How to match 33 IRs-in-training: Advice to medical students on residency match


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From the Kinked Wire: Episode 69: How to Match


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