Jason,

 

As one of the few PhD, RVTs out there, I may have a doctorate degree but does not give me a license to practice medicine.  It is the medical license which is needed to provide the final reading/interpretation/diagnosis.  While a good deal of work can be done by a non-MD, as Frank mentioned, there needs to be a system in place for a physician to appropriately supervise and review/read/interpret the studies.

 

Ann Marie Kupinski, PhD, RVT, RDMS

But not MD or JD

 

 

Along a similar thread, can a PhD read studies?  And if they did, say with the title of Technical Director and then billed Medicare as such for say, 10-15 years, would/could that leave that facility open to penalties or whistleblower issues?

 

Hypothetically speaking of course…