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Physicians criticize insurance lobby’s ‘tone-deaf’ response to Change Healthcare cyberattack

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“This approach is particularly galling since service outages have exacerbated the administrative burdens and care delays already associated with" prior authorization, AMA said.

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

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Although medical imaging has frequently been considered a major culprit behind the growth of healthcare spending in the U.S., its share among employer-insured individuals actually decreased between 2010 and 2021, researchers have reported. billion, while spending on all other healthcare services increased by 63.7%.

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Envision Healthcare signs deal to keep its radiologists in-network with key insurer

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The private equity-backed multispecialty group said Thursday that the pact will grant commercial and Medicare Advantage beneficiaries continued access to its physicians.

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Experts call for CPT codes for imaging AI reimbursement

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CPT codes are needed for appropriate insurance reimbursement. Its the wild west out there as far as how its being handled, said Sandy Coffta, vice president of client services at Healthcare Administrative Partners. A lot of what Im hearing is anywhere from $40 to $100 typically across different practices, she said.

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A Benefits Leader's Top Priority: Reducing Cancer at all Costs

employers are bracing for the largest increase in health insurance costs in a decade next year. And the largest healthcare expense to employers?

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How consistent is pricing for healthcare services?

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Pricing for healthcare services -- including imaging -- isn't as consistent across the U.S. The findings underscore how important it is for patients to understand pricing variability in healthcare, wrote a team led by Benjamin Chartock, PhD, of Bentley University in Waltham, MA. Established patient office visit $88 ($69 to $114) 0.46

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Are patients satisfied with interventional radiology experiences?

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In the setting of limited patient satisfaction data in interventional radiology, this work investigated predictors of high patient satisfaction scores to provide insights for interventionalists for optimal healthcare delivery, the group wrote in the study abstract.