AuntMinnie

JULY 26, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its proposal for payments in 2025 under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), and it contains an across-the-board 2.8% This reduction in payments continues a trend that has seen the Medicare fee schedule reduced by nearly 10% over the past 10 years. Radiology -3.8% -1.8% -2.8%

Medicare 105

Medicare Radiology Interventional Radiology Nuclear Medicine 105

AuntMinnie

JUNE 14, 2024

Medicaid reimbursement, cost-saving, and radiologist recruitment issues are contributing to a drastic reduction of interventional radiology services in Tuscaloosa, home to the University of Alabama, and surrounding communities. Others quoted by the Alabama Daily News report cited Medicaid reimbursement as a factor. at the time.

Interventional Radiology 74

Interventional Radiology Radiology Government Insurance 74

AuntMinnie

APRIL 15, 2024

Radiology administrators are confident that diagnostic and interventional radiology will continue to grow as a profit center, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) new report for the second quarter of 2024. Graphic courtesy of The MarkeTech Group.

Radiology 115

Radiology Medicare Interventional Radiology Hospital 115

AuntMinnie

JULY 18, 2024

Radiology administrators remain positive that diagnostic and interventional radiology will continue to grow as a profit center, according to The MarkeTech Group's Medical Imaging Confidence Index (MICI) report for the third quarter of 2024. Image courtesy of The MarkeTech Group.

Radiology 113

Radiology Interventional Radiology Medicare Diagnostic 113

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine 144

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine X-ray MRI Hospital 144

JVIR

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Within the past decade, Medicare reimbursements for interventional radiology (IR) procedures have been declining. In order to offset expenses, hospitals may increase charges. This study aimed to characterize the utilization and billing trends in IR.

Interventional Radiology 40

Interventional Radiology Medicare Radiology Hospital 40

AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

To shed light on current and anticipated claims trends, the researchers searched commercial and Medicare payer data on arterial and venous thrombectomy procedures performed to treat VTE between January 2017 and December 2021. AT was more often billed through commercial insurers (62.1%) than Medicare (37.9%), with the opposite true of VT (53.2%

Minimally Invasive Procedure 105

Minimally Invasive Procedure Medicare X-ray Insurance 105