Radiology Business April 2, 2025
Officed-based physicians are interpreting hundreds of thousands of medical images they ordered themselves each year, despite lacking the rigorous training of radiologists.
This raises potential concerns about quality of care, experts charged in a new Neiman Health Policy Institute study published Wednesday. Nonradiologists working in physician offices ordered over 1.6 million imaging exams for beneficiaries covered by traditional Medicare in 2022. Of those, they interpreted about 43.6% themselves (or nearly 712,000 exams), rather than sending them to radiologists, researchers detailed in the American Journal of Roentgenology.
Study co-author Vijay M. Rao, MD, believes their findings signal the need for potential policy reform in Washington. Specialties such as OB-GYN and emergency medicine receive only targeted training on certain imaging...
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