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A Primer on Disability Insurance for Doctors

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.

A Primer on Disability Insurance for Doctors

ACR lauds legislation that would fine insurers for delayed NSA payments

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Publicly insured pregnant women less likely to get 20-week ultrasounds

Insurance 101 – Understanding Medical Insurance when it comes to Medical Imaging

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

Insurance company ‘profiteering’ could have ‘devastating impact’ on physicians, ACR warns HHS

Insurers claim No Surprises Act is not narrowing networks; radiologists disagree

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Medical Innovations and Insurance Adjustments: How Advances Shape Coverage and Policy Paradigms

Strategic Radiology’s SR Health Insurance Plan Earns Excellence in Health Risk Management Certification

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Radiology practice sues broker for allegedly letting insurance lapse the same day it suffered a cyberattack

Intermountain Medical Imaging Now Contracted and In-Network with St. Luke’s Health Partners (SLHP) Insurance Plans

Health insurer eliminates prior authorization for 50% of radiology codes

How Much Can I Bill Insurance For Digital X-Rays?

Mo. law to have insurance companies cover diagnostic breast imaging

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

Insurers eventually approve most denials, though payer-mandated changes may be compromising care

Radiology the only category to see year-over-year decrease in insurers’ max allowed amount

Insurance Status Correlates with Access to Procedural Therapy for Patients with Early-Stage Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Retrospective Cohort Study of the National Cancer Database

State’s largest insurer lifts prior authorization requirement for MRI, steers patients to single provider

Lawmakers in 4 states introduce bills requiring insurers to cover supplemental breast imaging

New York governor signs bill to expand coverage for breast imaging

Radiologists urged to report insurance companies forcing lower reimbursements due to No Surprises Act

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

Federal law change would require all insurers to cover any supplemental breast imaging

Insurance coverage a primary factor of breast cancer mortality

Factors that fuel patients’ failure to follow-up after ‘probably benign’ breast findings

Imaging centers, Bon Secours Mercy Health sue insurer Anthem BCBS seeking $93M

Radiology information systems provider reports data breach

Radiology practices launch insurance plan to counter soaring costs, plus more company notes

Physicians, hospitals cry foul after court deems No Surprises Act decisions ‘unenforceable’

Providers chart uptick in number of breast MRI denials issued by insurers

Another No Surprises Act win: Qualifying payment amount process was tilted in insurers’ favor, judge rules

Patients covered by Medicaid less likely to undergo 20-week ultrasound during pregnancy

Affordable Care Act Expansions Improved Access to Cancer Care, Study Suggests

Radiology provider LucidHealth names associate CMO, plus new department chairs at Vanderbilt, Dartmouth

Radiology data breach may have exposed private health information

Radiology societies urge commercial insurers to align with Medicare on payment policy for key procedure

Appeals court revives whistleblower suits alleging unqualified broker made radiology referral decisions

June is DI Month

Same hospital, same insurer, but imaging prices twice as high for commercial vs. Medicare Advantage plans

Radiology societies implore Cigna to reverse decision cutting off access to ‘critically important’ service

Factors that fuel patients’ failure to follow-up after ‘probably benign’ breast findings

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