Radiation Oncology

Training path

1. College (bachelor’s degree) 4 years
2. Medical school (MD or DO) 4 years
3. Radiation oncology residency (including first clinical year) 5 years

Training after medical school: 5 years. From the start of college: about 13 years.

Usual minimum program lengths from ACGME program requirements. Some doctors take extra research years or a second fellowship.

Who they are

• MD (DOs make up the rest) 98%
• Women 29%
• Graduated 35 or more years ago 23%
• Offer telehealth 40%
• Accept Medicare’s approved amount 98%

Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.

What they do most for Medicare patients

• Ct guidance for insertion of radiation therapy fields 2,564,322
• Calculation of radiation therapy dose 1,099,668
• Intensity modulated treatment delivery, single or multiple fields/arcs,via narrow spatially and temporally modulated beams, binary, dynamic mlc, per treatment session 1,021,432
• Radiation treatment management, 5 treatment sessions 831,225
• Stereoscopic x-ray guidance for localization of target volume for the delivery of radiation therapy 693,562
• Design and construction of complex radiation treatment device 634,701
• Continuing radiation therapy consultation per week 306,177
• Complex radiation therapy planning 269,938
• Radiation treatment delivery,3 or more separate treatment areas, custom blocking, tangential ports, wedges, rotational beam, compensators, electron beam; 6-10 mev 233,977
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 225,598
• Design and construction of radiation treatment device for high precision radiation therapy 185,248
• Lutetium lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan, therapeutic, 1 millicurie 178,555

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Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.

What they prescribe most

• Tamsulosin Hcl (Flomax) 37.8%
• Dexamethasone (Hemady, Maxidex, Ozurdex) 4.9%
• Lidocaine Hcl (Dermacinrx Lidogel, Glydo, Xylocaine) 4.2%
• Hydrocodone/Acetaminophen (Hydrocodone-Acetaminophen) 4.1%
• Mometasone Furoate (Asmanex Hfa, Asmanex) 3.6%
• Oxycodone Hcl (Oxycontin, Roxicodone, Roxybond) 3.3%
• Silver Sulfadiazine (Silvadene, Ssd) 2.7%
• Relugolix (Orgovyx) 2.6%
• Ciprofloxacin Hcl (Ciloxan) 2.5%
• Gabapentin (Gralise, Neurontin) 2.2%
• Bicalutamide (Casodex) 1.9%
• Oxybutynin Chloride 1.9%
• Lorazepam (Ativan, Loreev Xr) 1.6%
• Levothyroxine Sodium (Euthyrox, Levo-T, Ermeza) 1.2%
• Methylprednisolone (Medrol) 1.2%

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Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.

Hospitals where the most work

• Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston, MA 69 Radiation Oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 63 Radiation Oncology at Hospital of Univ of Pennsylvania
• Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester Rochester, MN 53 Radiation Oncology at Mayo Clinic Hospital Rochester
• Massachusetts General Hospital Boston, MA 53 Radiation Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital
• UCSF Medical Center San Francisco, CA 42 Radiation Oncology at UCSF Medical Center
• Stanford Health Care Stanford, CA 41 Radiation Oncology at Stanford Health Care
• Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH 41 Radiation Oncology at Cleveland Clinic
• Northside Hospital Atlanta, GA 40 Radiation Oncology at Northside Hospital
• Barnes Jewish Hospital Saint Louis, MO 36 Radiation Oncology at Barnes Jewish Hospital
• Emory University Hospital Midtown Atlanta, GA 35 Radiation Oncology at Emory University Hospital Midtown

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Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.

Schools they graduated from most

• Harvard Medical School 140
• University of Michigan Medical School 79
• Wayne State University School of Medicine 77
• University of Florida College of Medicine 76
• Duke University School of Medicine 67
• Yale University School of Medicine 66
• Baylor College of Medicine 62
• Indiana University School of Medicine 62
• Medical College of Wisconsin 60
• Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 57

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From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).