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Higher Medicaid-to-Medicare reimbursement ratios boost imaging use

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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. Medicare reimbursement levels are set by individual states, and they vary across the U.S., X-ray or fluoroscopy 0.82

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HPI: Nonradiologists interpret more than a third of office-based imaging

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million office-based imaging claims for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022 that were ordered by nonradiologists. They found that rates of self-interpretation varied by imaging modality: Self-interpretation rate for office-based imaging by modality Modality Percentage X-ray and fluoroscopy 50.4%

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

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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. Ultrasound 24% 28% X-ray/fluoroscopy 56.2% Nuclear medicine 2.7%

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

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Low-dose X-ray Solutions Serve Broadest Patient Population Digital radiography has come a long way at Massac Memorial as well. For example, the D-EVO Suite II X-ray room has made a big improvement on image quality while lowering dose. That temporal resolution is much better than it was with previous scanners.”

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Meet the Minnies 2024 semifinal candidates

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Scientific Paper of the Year Advanced Practice Provider Procedures Commonly Performed in Interventional Radiology: Medicare Volume Trends From 2010 to 2021. Radiologist Workforce Attrition from 2019 to 2024: A National Medicare Analysis. Image from Fangyi Liu, MD, of the Chinese PLA General Hospital, et al.