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

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Publicly insured pregnant women are less likely to get 20-week ultrasounds, a phenomenon that drives disparities in prenatal diagnosis of congenital heart defects, according to research published September 23 in Prenatal Diagnosis. “To Of these, 305 had a prenatal diagnosis of a fetal heart defect and 215 were publicly insured.

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

Intermountain Medical Imaging

In today’s complex healthcare landscape, understanding medical insurance and medical imaging is crucial for patients to make informed decisions about their health. In this blog post, we’ll explore key concepts related to medical insurance and medical imaging, with a focus on patient education.

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

Intermountain Medical Imaging

With three outpatient imaging locations throughout Boise, Meridian, and Eagle, Intermountain Medical Imaging offers diagnostic imaging procedures in a calm and comforting environment, including MRI, CT, Ultrasound, X-ray, Interventional Radiology, and Mammography. “St.

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UltraCon: Expert talks ultrasound's role in imaging dense breasts

AuntMinnie

With federal and state-level legislation mandating insurance coverage for supplemental breast imaging and providers disclosing breast density information to patients, it seems like ultrasound would have an immediate and important role in this area.

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

Health Imaging

Babies born to women with public insurance also face lower odds of being diagnosed with congenital heart defects before birth, new research suggests.

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

Radiology Business

Age, race, whether they underwent MRI or ultrasound, insurance coverage, and other factors correlated with patients no-showing following a BI-RADS 3 designation.

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Few ‘surprise’ patient bills are from radiologists, study finds

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Out-of-network balance billing occurs when an individual with private health insurance is administered unanticipated care from a clinician who is not in their health plan’s network. Of these, five million (6.3%) were out-of-network claims, with the majority for XR (56.8%), followed by ultrasound (15.4%) and CT (14.9%). in 2007 to 1.1%