High Plains Radiological Association

Patient Notice of Privacy Practices
About Amarillo

We have a very busy practice in Amarillo, Texas covering one main hospital (400 bed Baptist-St. Anthony’s www.bsahs.com ) and numerous (~30) outlying clinics and community hospitals.

We have state-of-the-art equipment at our main hospital: fully integrated PACS, MR (three GE 1.5T), multislice CT (one), spiral CT (two), angiography (2 suites), R2 CAD, stereo mammotome, sonography (3 Acuson Sequoia), etc.  This facility has been recognized as a center of excellence in each of the last three annual nationwide surveys by U.S. News and World Report:
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/070204/new_usnews.shtml
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/071803/new_bsaranks.shtml
http://www.amarillonet.com/stories/071602/new_bsa.shtml

HPRA staffs a clinic for a large group of internists which has 1 CT, 2 ultrasound systems, and MR (www.adcpa.com); another clinic has Open MR, spiral CT, and mammography. Of course, the outlying community hospitals we cover have additional MR, CT, and sono facilities. All outside mammograms are brought into a central mammography facility which has R2 CAD and a computer automated reporting system.

Our group continues to adopt the latest technology to provide quality medical care.  Our teleradiology effort is state-of-the-art and continuing to expand, employing high speed internet connections.  We have an active interventional program (TIPS, vertebroplasty/kyphoplasty, stents, biliary interventions, intracranial coils for aneurysms, CT guided thermal ablation of liver metastases, AAA stent grafts, carotid stents, etc.)   We have strong emphasis on accurate, high-quality services -- a "Problem Case" conference begins each of our group meetings. 

We currently have 21 radiologists; we have recently added an Interventional fellow from University of North Caroloina, an Interventional fellow from M.D. Anderson, a Body Imaging Fellow who trained at Brown Univ., a musculoskeletal fellow who trained at UC San Diego, and radiologist with both a Neuroradiology Fellowship (Stanford) and Nuclear Medicine training (Univ. of Wisconsin).

Call: One of our partners has chosen to work permanently on the night shift, so that night call for others is only on weekends (2 nights every 17th week).  All call is in-house, and no shift is longer than 11 hours.

We operate an effective billing office with low overhead.  Computer software is used to schedule our radiologists.  Our pension plan is self-directed; each participant can invest his funds as he sees fit.  Texas has no income tax.