Insight
Getting Your Reads Back, Part 2 of 3
Why It Keeps Getting Worse
Marc Alan Besinaiz, Principal, Medical Imaging Practice
Why can't imaging leaders get their reads back?
Because the squeeze comes from every direction.
- Radiologists now leave practice at more than double the rate they did in 2014. (ACR Health Policy Institute, 2026)
- About 45% report burnout. (AMA physician survey, 2026)
- Practicing radiologists per 100,000 Americans barely moved from 2010 to 2022, rising only from 11.1 to 11.5, while imaging demand kept climbing. (Yale study, JACR, 2026)
- Radiology-only practices fell about 31% as practices consolidated into larger groups. (ACR Health Policy Institute, AJR, 2024)
- Subspecialists are 37% more likely than generalists to leave the profession. (ACR Health Policy Institute, 2026)
Not enough radiologists. More scans. Fewer partners to choose from.
That math doesn't fix itself.