DOTmed July 8, 2024
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study found that radiologists interpreted 72.1% of all imaging studies for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022, with the remaining 27.9% performed by other types of clinicians.
Market share varied by imaging modality; radiologists interpreted 97.3% of CT, 91% of MR, 76.6% of radiology/fluoroscopy, 50.9% of nuclear medicine, and just 33.9% of ultrasound.
The research, published in the Journal of the American College of Radiology was based on 123 million Medicare Part B imaging claims in 2022.
For noncardiac imaging, the study found that radiologists interpreted nearly all imaging in the hospital outpatient, inpatient, and emergency department settings. Even in the office setting, radiologists interpreted a majority of noncardiac advanced imaging CT, MR,...
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