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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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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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

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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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

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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Ben White

JULY 11, 2023

Certainly the conventional wisdom argued that large firms like Envision had the ability to recruit and retain clinicians across vast geographies, and negotiating power with the large insurers that increasingly dominate key insurance sectors like Medicare Advantage and Managed Medicaid.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

christine.book Wed, 06/21/2023 - 10:48 June 21, 2023 — NYU Langone Health has published an overview of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool designed to smooth hospital operations for better patient care. The resulting 4.1-billion-word

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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

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

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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Imaging Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

According to research from the 2024 HIMSS State of Interoperability and Connected Care survey *, improving patient outcomes remains the most important goal for health systems and hospitals. hospitals and health systems.

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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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Ben White

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Just last week I was at a hospital where they told me: We have our own sales team now. We have hospitals with commercial departments and procurement teams, all staffing people with no background in healthcare at all. In recent decades, healthcare has been colonised by lawyers. Now you’re in opposing camps. It’s crazy!

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Imaging Technology

MAY 2, 2024

A detailed statement issued by MGH today on the study, “Demographic bias in misdiagnosis by computational pathology models,” reported findings of substantial variability in pathology AI models’ performance based on race, insurance type and age group, serving as a “call to action” to researchers and regulators to improve medical equity.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 21, 2023

A substantial number of Americans who could benefit from early detection of these four cancers use are not screened, even though the screening tests must be provided without any out-of-pocket costs for almost everyone with health insurance.” Fendrick directs the U-M Center for Value Based Insurance Design.

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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Insured Or Uninsured The price of medical procedures can vary between insurance providers. The change in price largely depends on how much of the procedure your insurance plan covers, if any at all. If you don’t have health insurance, you can expect to pay for the full cost of the procedure out-of-pocket.

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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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Capitol Imaging Services

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Independent imaging centers, like Capitol Imaging Services (CIS), on average feature lower-priced procedures that use the same high quality technology that yield the same, if not better results as a hospital radiology scan. Why Can Hospital Imaging Cost More? At the CIS family of centers , we use the global billing model.

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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

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

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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Capitol Imaging Services

JANUARY 24, 2022

On this particular occasion, two physicians told our staff that a local hospital was less expensive than a Capitol Imaging Services affiliate for a particular procedure, a procedure often not covered by insurance. Our affiliate was the better cost option for their patients. Click here to complete this request.

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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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MRI Network

OCTOBER 24, 2024

But what are the common pressures faced by hospitals, clinics, and private practices? Reimbursement rates from Medicare, Medicaid, and private insurers have decreased from their COVID highs. Finally, health insurance deductibles and costs are also increasing. These days, hospitals must invest in digital products to survive.

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MRI Network

OCTOBER 7, 2024

for invoicing and insurance claims) has added new burdens to overstretched budgets. People may suddenly have to pay more out-of-pocket costs, or their health insurance doesn’t cover prescription drugs. According to McKinsey, the current inflation rate indicates a rise in healthcare costs of $370 billion by 2027.

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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

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

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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