Davis: Agreements have whittled away exclusivity for the radiology practice, and yet the group often continues to have contractual obligation to provide off-hours coverage. It's not fair that a radiology group doesn't have the exclusives for interventional radiology, for example, and yet it is obligated to provide 100 percent of the call and coverage.Increasingly, what we see is the position that many radiology groups take-and hospitals are open to this-is to say, 'any services we provide that are exclusive will include 24/7/365 coverage, we'll be on call, etc. But anything that isn't exclusive, we're going to have to create a mechanism where the coverage and call obligation is equitably allocated among physicians who provide those services.'
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