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Higher Medicaid-to-Medicare reimbursement ratios boost imaging use

AuntMinnie

Higher Medicaid-to-Medicare reimbursement ratios (MMRR) are linked to increased likelihood of Medicaid patients receiving CT, MR, ultrasound, and x-ray imaging, researchers have reported. Hence, the potentially beneficial aspects of increased Medicaid reimbursement, although not [necessarily] specific to imaging, are broad-based."

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Study finds decreases in imaging's share of all healthcare spending

AuntMinnie

Over the years medical imaging has been considered a major contributor to increased healthcare spending, and has been subject to a variety of cost-cutting measures that have been mostly aimed at reducing Medicare and Medicaid costs. million individuals; they used the Neiman Imaging Types of Services (NITOS), version 4.0

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Non-Physician Providers Increasingly Used in Imaging Interpretations

Vesta Teleradiology

Most NPP interpretations were for radiography/fluoroscopy (53.3%) or ultrasound (26.1%). Researchers should also explore NPPs’ roles in supervising diagnostic imaging tests involving contrast administration, in accordance with state regulations and Medicare rules. in 2016 to 3.3% in 2020, specifically, marking a 26.9%

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Rural Hospital Raises the Bar with Comprehensive State-of-the-art Imaging Systems

Imaging Technology

To meet that goal, we had to get the best possible equipment and that’s why we turned to Fujifilm Healthcare Americas Corporation for the very latest in diagnostic imaging systems.” The recent investment in a full portfolio of diagnostic imaging equipment is the latest testament to that philosophy.