AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 19, 2024

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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AuntMinnie

APRIL 2, 2025

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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AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Adopting health information exchange (HIE) between unaffiliated healthcare providers leads to significant decreases in repeat imaging studies in emergency departments (EDs) and could potentially save millions of dollars, according to a large study from the University of Michigan. of ultrasound cases), and 29,073 repeat chest x-rays (19.5%

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