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Features 15


Balancing practice


Procedural and clinical roles of advanced practice providers


By Tali Fudim, NP 19


IR on the stand By Morgan Kohler


21 Patient-affi rming


care The role of IR in gender-affi rming medicine By Hope Racine


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34 SIR’s greatest hits:


SIR Connect By Brian Haefs


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Coding the future How an innovation becomes a billable procedure By Hope Racine


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Research rewards The benefi ts of private practice research By Melanie Padgett Powers


Columns 6


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Leadership IR up front


18 Coding Q&A: Coding for thoracic duct cannulation 27 Abstracts from the current literature 28 Inside access 32


From the Kinked Wire: Barry Katzen and the renaissance of angioplasty


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