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GAE could be cost-effective for knee osteoarthritis

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Medicare payer's perspective over four years, noted lead author Daniel Kwak, MD, PhD, of the University of Chicago, and colleagues. “In GAE was also more cost-effective than RFA when clinical success exceeded 51% and the utility value exceeded 0.617 following GAE, and when the GAE quarterly attrition rate was less than 17.4%.

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The state of radiology: Part 1 -- Is practice building dead?

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Using data gathered from the Medicare Provider Data Catalog for the years 2014-2023, Christensen saw an emerging trend of radiologists moving to large multispecialty practices. There are 36,024 radiologists enrolled in Medicare (Harvey L. Christensen probed radiologist migration for new affiliations after their practices ceased.