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Few ‘surprise’ patient bills are from radiologists, study finds

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In an analysis of billing trends, the rate of out-of-network (OON) imaging claims declined from 12.6% in 2021, with the decline occurring broadly across imaging modalities, noted lead author Jay Parikh, MD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. million imaging claims for 19.5 in 2007 to 1.1%

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Higher Medicaid-to-Medicare reimbursement ratios boost imaging use

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To address this knowledge gap, Christensen and colleagues conducted a study that assessed associations between diagnostic imaging use with the state-level professional payment MMRR, computing these ratios by imaging modality. Nuclear medicine 0.76 X-ray or fluoroscopy 0.82 Ultrasound 0.85 higher for MR, 21.4%

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Imaging Market Share Analysis Shows 28% of Image Interpretation Performed by Non-Radiologists

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of all imaging studies for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022, with the remaining 27.9% According to a written study summary released by HPI, market share varied by imaging modality; radiologists interpreted 97.3% of radiology/fluoroscopy (XR), 50.9% of nuclear medicine (NM), and 33.9%