Radiology Business February 20, 2025
New data indicate that certain physicians may be referring lower-pay Medicaid patients to interventional radiology while performing surgical procedures on the more lucrative commercially insured population.
Previous research has charted disparities in the use of minimally invasive IR approaches to treat fibroids in the uterus. Experts with the Neiman Health Policy Institute sought to understand how insurance influences these care decisions, sharing their findings Wednesday in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Women covered by Medicaid are about 38% likelier to undergo uterine artery embolization—an alternative to hysterectomy that involves injecting tiny particles to stop blood flow to the uterus. States with higher Medicaid reimbursement rates for hysterectomy also were associated with lower odds of receiving...
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