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

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Out-of-network balance billing occurs when an individual with private health insurance is administered unanticipated care from a clinician who is not in their health plan’s network. In total, they identified 80.4 million imaging claims for 19.5 million unique individuals over the study period. The full article can be found here.

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

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its share among employer-insured individuals actually decreased between 2010 and 2021, researchers have reported. during the decade, according to a team led by first author Michal Horný of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA, and senior author Richard Duszak, MD, of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.