Virtual Contrast Supervision in Michigan

Michigan is two states operationally, and the Upper Peninsula has never had the physician supply the Lower does. ContrastConnect provides licensed supervising physicians over real-time audio-visual connection — the same coverage in Marquette as in Troy.

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1,000,000

Contrast exams supervised annually

6of 10

Largest health systems

4,100+

Technologists certified

500+

Imaging partners nationwide

Two peninsulas, two staffing realities

Michigan runs two different imaging markets under one state license.

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Metro Detroit, Grand Rapids, and Ann Arbor have academic systems, large physician groups, and enough density that coverage is a scheduling question rather than a sourcing one. They have the ordinary version of the problem: contrast volume growing faster than the budget for another radiologist.

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The Upper Peninsula has the other version. It holds a small fraction of the state’s population across roughly a third of its land, with winters that make travel between sites genuinely unreliable for months at a time. A facility in Marquette, Houghton, or Escanaba cannot recruit a supervising physician the way a Southfield center can, and a physician who agrees to cover two UP sites may not be able to reach the second one in February.

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Northern Lower Michigan sits in between, with the same thin bench and the same seasonal travel problem.

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Virtual contrast supervision removes travel from the coverage model entirely. Availability doesn’t depend on road conditions or on which peninsula the scanner is in.

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ContrastConnect covers imaging centers across Metro Detroit, West Michigan, Mid-Michigan, the Northern Lower Peninsula, and the Upper Peninsula — including Detroit, Grand Rapids, Warren, Sterling Heights, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Flint, Dearborn, Livonia, Troy, Kalamazoo, Traverse City, Marquette, and Saginaw.

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Why Michigan imaging centers work with ContrastConnect

Contrast coverage fails in predictable ways: a physician who isn’t available, a technologist who wasn’t trained for the escalation, documentation reconstructed after the fact. We address all three as one service rather than three vendors.

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We also cover imaging centers in Ohio, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

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What Applies in Michigan

For Michigan imaging centers participating in Medicare, the governing standard is federal. Michigan has not enacted a statute of its own on virtual contrast supervision — unlike California, Washington, or Ohio — so the CMS rule is the operative requirement. Federal standard: CY2026 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule — virtual direct supervision permanent as of January 1, 2026 Technology: real-time, two-way audio-visual, HIPAA-compliant. A phone call does not satisfy the standard, however immediate. Covers: diagnostic tests under 42 CFR §410.32, including contrast-enhanced CT and MRI Excluded: services within 010 or 090 global surgery periods still require physical presence Michigan: no state statute specifically addressing virtual contrast supervision Who may administer: (pending — see verification note above)

What’s Included

Licensed supervising physicians over real-time, two-way audio-visual connection on a HIPAA-compliant platform, during your operating hours
Technologist training on escalation and documentation, completed before go-live
Documentation and audit support — every supervision event logged in a form built for review
Multi-site coverage under one model rather than a separate arrangement per location
Implementation support through go-live, on a defined timeline

How It Works

It starts with a short call about your modality mix, scan volume, hours, and sites. We tell you what coverage looks like and what it costs.

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From there we handle platform setup, workflow integration, and technologist training — so your team knows the process before the first supervised exam rather than during it.

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At go-live, one button connects your technologist to a supervising physician in seconds.

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Coverage that holds through a UP winter

Upper Peninsula and northern Michigan centers have the scanners and the patients. What they don’t reliably have is a supervising physician who can be there — in February, on short notice, at a salary the volume supports.

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Virtual contrast supervision meets the standard as CMS defines it, regardless of the drive. Twenty minutes on a call will tell you whether it fits.