Ben White

JULY 5, 2024

Introduction Disability Insurance is a boring and expensive but critical component of a physician’s financial plan. While life insurance pays your beneficiaries when you die, disability insurance pays you when you can’t work due to a medical condition.

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Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

Also, LucidHealth expands in Florida, New Jersey practice launches joint venture with hospital group, and US Radiology Specialists improves MRI efficiency.

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TRA Medical Imaging

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

At TRA Medical Imaging, we believe in transparent pricing and helping you navigate the complexities of insurance coverage, out-of-pocket costs, and financial assistance options. Insurance Coverage Your health insurance plan determines how much of the cost is covered and what you will owe. Does Insurance Cover My Imaging Exam?

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Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

Highmark Health's latest effort will spend another $12 million to build a new 8,000 square-foot imaging center in western Pennsylvania.

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Radiology Business

JUNE 6, 2023

3561 also would apply to groups owned by physicians, hospitals, insurers, or venture capital firms, who could face fines of $2M for failing to comply.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 21, 2025

The group serves hospitals, imaging centers, and outpatient practices while also fulfilling an academic mission as the radiology faculty at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, NJ. URG, a 60-year-old radiology practice based in East Brunswick, employs over 180 board-certified radiologists who interpret over 2.1

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In 2013, our top article covered a decision by a New York City hospital to close its radiology residency program. A New York City hospital on Monday moved to terminate its radiology residency program, leaving 11 residents without a program or funding to continue beyond the current program year ending June 30.

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MRI Network

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Since healthcare disparities in hospitals have preventable sources, though, organizations can work toward providing more equitable services that acknowledge the unique needs of each patient. Hospitals committed to addressing the root causes of healthcare disparities can start by addressing some of the following opportunities.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) mandate on breast density notification taking effect to state- and federal-level legislation being introduced and passed for insurance coverage on supplemental imaging, breast imaging is poised to experience transformation soon, the experts said. From the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

“Lack of financial viability for the IDR process limits clinicians’ opportunities to dispute payer-determined payments and potentially undermines their bargaining power in insurer contract negotiations,” Christensen and co-authors wrote. of batched out-of-network claims for all other hospital-based specialties combined, respectively.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The team tracked volumes by provider type (cardiologists, radiologists, and "other") and practice setting (hospital and nonhospital). Hospital setting Radiologists 52% 58.3% Hospital setting Radiologists 33.9% The investigators found that 38, 806 cardiac CT exams were performed in 2013 and 112,909 in 2020, an increase of 191%.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Prior authorization is a process used by some health insurance companies to determine if they will cover a prescribed procedure, service, or medication. “This study suggests that prior authorization for cancer care can have discrete negative associations with outcomes for patients,” Chino and colleagues wrote.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 29, 2024

its share among employer-insured individuals actually decreased between 2010 and 2021, researchers have reported. But spending growth among the employer-insured population (employer-sponsored insurance, or ESI) must also be evaluated, they explained. growth of nominal hospital imaging prices and a 22.6%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

that perform PET MPI, many perform a low volume of PET studies, with 56% of the cases in the Medicare database being performed in only 20 hospitals, they noted. Also, out of 400 centers in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 27, 2023

More than half of Americans carry private healthcare insurance, for which fees are negotiated rather than set by an entity such as Medicare, the study authors explained. This negotiation contributes to private insurance prices that are often higher than Medicare rates and variable, they said.

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2024

In terms of hospital/facility size, 46% of survey respondents reported 100 beds or less, 37% reported 100 to 349 beds, and 17% reported 350 beds or more. This second-quarter report included feedback from 150 imaging directors and managers across the following U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 6, 2025

As for hospital/facility size, 65% of survey respondents reported 100 beds or less, 14% reported 100 to 299 beds, and 21% reported 300 beds or more. Between the clearinghouses hired by insurance companies to do prior authorizations and the upheaval with the federal government, I think there is going to be a downturn in imaging." "Not

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A steady increase in the volume of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) exams is occurring, especially at mid- to high-level community hospitals across the country. If staff choose the right subgroup of patients to examine with CCTA imaging, they can save their hospital, healthcare system, and insurance companies a lot of money.

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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Peter Noël, PhD, an associate professor of radiology at Penn and director of CT research at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, told PBS station WHYY in Philadelphia that advanced CT technology has opened the door to unique scanning projects such as this one with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 8, 2024

Overall, patients reporting financial hardship were more likely to be Black, Medicaid insured, and to live in neighborhoods with high deprivation levels. The hospital's IT department provided a weekly report of patients reporting financial hardship. Of the total study cohort, 10.6% reported financial hardship.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AT was more often billed through commercial insurers (62.1%) than Medicare (37.9%), with the opposite true of VT (53.2% In addition, The Midwest and Southeast had the highest utilization of AT and VT, regardless of payer, and 61% of AT and 58% of VT procedures were performed in the outpatient hospital setting, according to the findings.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 21, 2023

researchers has found that screening MR. Read more on AuntMinnie.com Related Reading: New MRI technique helps target ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy Are hospitals disclosing prostate cancer service costs? Radiologist performance is consistent for prostate MRI reads Insurance coverage for prostate MRI is inconsistent across the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 17, 2024

Imaging and radiology centers are among the least affected hospital services in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022, a study published May 17 in JAMA Health Forum found. The survey study included 74 Ukrainian hospitals from 12 oblasts (regions or provinces).

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In patients treated at a memory clinic at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, amyloid PET scans detected brain pathology associated with the disease and led to changes in treatment plans in 36.5% Moreover, due to this lack of evidence, amyloid PET scans have yet to be reimbursed by the Chinese medical insurance system, they added.

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Capitol Imaging Services

JANUARY 3, 2022

According to the website, www.valuepenguin.com, “high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) were created for consumers to have a health insurance option with lower premiums and high deductibles. Insurance plans with a high deductible usually mean lower premium payments for employees. Capitol Imaging Services! Know before you go!

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 14, 2024

Recruitment, a nationwide shortage of radiologists, and after-hours utilization contributed to the decision, according to Jackie Jones, assistant radiology director at DCH, who confirmed for the Alabama Daily News that interventional radiology service changes were effective as of June 1 and are intended to maximize hospital resources.

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Imaging Technology

MAY 10, 2024

milla1cf Fri, 05/10/2024 - 08:05 May 10, 2024 — Insurance expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) were linked with an increase in patients receiving care at accredited cancer hospitals in Pennsylvania, according to a study published in Health Services Research by University of Pittsburgh researchers.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

A British Heart Foundation-funded study published May 29 in The Lancet co-authored by Chan used AI to analyze CCTA scans and clinical data from over 40,000 people at eight hospitals in the U.K. insurance claims data to study the clinical adoption of medical AI devices in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 26, 2024

According to an October 2023 article in Becker’s Hospital Review , “. Can you separately charge for AI based on reimbursement from either insurance, private payers, or until the U.S. If a patient has either no insurance or Medicare/Medicaid, the only option is to bill them separately for using AI.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) put into place the Hospital Price Transparency rule, which mandated that hospitals disclose the cost of services online as well as via a consumer-accessible list that includes prices for each. used a health insurance estimator. In 2021, the U.S. Only 11.9%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 12, 2024

It's crucial to mitigate the factors that cause these delays -- which negatively affect patient care, wrote a team led by Ronilda Lacson, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. more than 10 days after exam request) Factor Odds ratio (with 1 as reference) p-value Having public insurance 1.11 p Being female 1.11

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 7, 2024

What’s more, adults with a history of diabetes (odds ratio = 1.2), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (odds ratio = 1.58), cancer (odds ratio = 1.29), or past-year hospital admissions (odds ratio = 1.44) were also more likely to receive CTC. . > 400% of federal poverty level). The professional component is $104 in both settings. "We

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The challenges have come from the physician community because the IDR process defined within the NSA to determine a price for services was unfairly skewed to the benefit of the insurance company payers. There are also concerns about the administrative fees related to filing a dispute, and the way the system of batching claims is set out.

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Everything Rad

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Reading Time: 10 minutes read By Henry Williams, Carestream Area Vice President, Sales Western Nowadays, with hospital budgetary restrictions at the forefront of the purchasing decision making process, it seems like the X-Ray market, like everything else, is not immune to the current state of the economy.

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TRA Medical Imaging

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

At TRA Medical Imaging, we believe in transparent pricing and helping you navigate the complexities of insurance coverage, out-of-pocket costs, and financial assistance options. Insurance Coverage Your health insurance plan determines how much of the cost is covered and what you will owe. Does Insurance Cover My Imaging Exam?

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AuntMinnie

APRIL 30, 2024

In an interview with AuntMinnie.com , Wendie Berg, MD, PhD, in the department of radiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC Magee-Women's Hospital, said the new breast cancer screening recommendations come up short and that the biennial screening intervals are surprising. Berg added that at least half of U.S.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It expressed concern that including a single ineligible claim would invalidate an entire batch, incentivizing insurers to be less transparent about claim eligibility. Despite the concern in its comments, the ACR also conveyed positive sentiment for some parts of the ruling.

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