Radiology Business

APRIL 6, 2023

Highmark Health's latest effort will spend another $12 million to build a new 8,000 square-foot imaging center in western Pennsylvania.

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Radiology Business

JUNE 6, 2023

3561 also would apply to groups owned by physicians, hospitals, insurers, or venture capital firms, who could face fines of $2M for failing to comply.

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Imaging Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

christine.book Wed, 06/21/2023 - 10:48 June 21, 2023 — NYU Langone Health has published an overview of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool designed to smooth hospital operations for better patient care. The resulting 4.1-billion-word

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Ben White

JULY 11, 2023

Certainly the conventional wisdom argued that large firms like Envision had the ability to recruit and retain clinicians across vast geographies, and negotiating power with the large insurers that increasingly dominate key insurance sectors like Medicare Advantage and Managed Medicaid.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 18, 2024

“Lack of financial viability for the IDR process limits clinicians’ opportunities to dispute payer-determined payments and potentially undermines their bargaining power in insurer contract negotiations,” Christensen and co-authors wrote. of batched out-of-network claims for all other hospital-based specialties combined, respectively.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 29, 2024

its share among employer-insured individuals actually decreased between 2010 and 2021, researchers have reported. But spending growth among the employer-insured population (employer-sponsored insurance, or ESI) must also be evaluated, they explained. growth of nominal hospital imaging prices and a 22.6%

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AuntMinnie

JULY 12, 2024

Outgoing Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT) president Ed Nicol, MD, of Royal Brompton Hospital in London, U.K., Jeffrey Kuvin, MD, of North Shore University Hospital in Manhasset, NY, will serve as president and chair of the 15-member board of directors. The board's application can be reviewed here.

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AuntMinnie

AUGUST 21, 2023

researchers has found that screening MR. Read more on AuntMinnie.com Related Reading: New MRI technique helps target ultrasound-guided prostate biopsy Are hospitals disclosing prostate cancer service costs? Radiologist performance is consistent for prostate MRI reads Insurance coverage for prostate MRI is inconsistent across the U.S.

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Capitol Imaging Services

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Insured Or Uninsured The price of medical procedures can vary between insurance providers. The change in price largely depends on how much of the procedure your insurance plan covers, if any at all. If you don’t have health insurance, you can expect to pay for the full cost of the procedure out-of-pocket.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 27, 2023

More than half of Americans carry private healthcare insurance, for which fees are negotiated rather than set by an entity such as Medicare, the study authors explained. This negotiation contributes to private insurance prices that are often higher than Medicare rates and variable, they said.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The team tracked volumes by provider type (cardiologists, radiologists, and "other") and practice setting (hospital and nonhospital). Hospital setting Radiologists 52% 58.3% Hospital setting Radiologists 33.9% The investigators found that 38, 806 cardiac CT exams were performed in 2013 and 112,909 in 2020, an increase of 191%.

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AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Prior authorization is a process used by some health insurance companies to determine if they will cover a prescribed procedure, service, or medication. “This study suggests that prior authorization for cancer care can have discrete negative associations with outcomes for patients,” Chino and colleagues wrote.

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Capitol Imaging Services

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Independent imaging centers, like Capitol Imaging Services (CIS), on average feature lower-priced procedures that use the same high quality technology that yield the same, if not better results as a hospital radiology scan. Why Can Hospital Imaging Cost More? At the CIS family of centers , we use the global billing model.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 17, 2024

that perform PET MPI, many perform a low volume of PET studies, with 56% of the cases in the Medicare database being performed in only 20 hospitals, they noted. Also, out of 400 centers in the U.S.

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AuntMinnie

MAY 17, 2024

Imaging and radiology centers are among the least affected hospital services in Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022, a study published May 17 in JAMA Health Forum found. The survey study included 74 Ukrainian hospitals from 12 oblasts (regions or provinces).

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Imaging Technology

MAY 2, 2024

A detailed statement issued by MGH today on the study, “Demographic bias in misdiagnosis by computational pathology models,” reported findings of substantial variability in pathology AI models’ performance based on race, insurance type and age group, serving as a “call to action” to researchers and regulators to improve medical equity.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 14, 2024

Recruitment, a nationwide shortage of radiologists, and after-hours utilization contributed to the decision, according to Jackie Jones, assistant radiology director at DCH, who confirmed for the Alabama Daily News that interventional radiology service changes were effective as of June 1 and are intended to maximize hospital resources.

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Capitol Imaging Services

JANUARY 24, 2022

On this particular occasion, two physicians told our staff that a local hospital was less expensive than a Capitol Imaging Services affiliate for a particular procedure, a procedure often not covered by insurance. Our affiliate was the better cost option for their patients. Click here to complete this request.

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Imaging Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Teams reported new findings about radiation-induced secondary cancers, a new guidance system for radiation therapy, and the consequences of insurance denials, among other topics. Overall, a significant proportion of insurance denials led to delays in treatment, changes to the treatments that patients ultimately were able to receive, or both.

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Imaging Technology

AUGUST 21, 2023

A substantial number of Americans who could benefit from early detection of these four cancers use are not screened, even though the screening tests must be provided without any out-of-pocket costs for almost everyone with health insurance.” Fendrick directs the U-M Center for Value Based Insurance Design.

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Ben White

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Just last week I was at a hospital where they told me: We have our own sales team now. We have hospitals with commercial departments and procurement teams, all staffing people with no background in healthcare at all. In recent decades, healthcare has been colonised by lawyers. Now you’re in opposing camps. It’s crazy!

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Capitol Imaging Services

SEPTEMBER 18, 2022

Another benefit to choosing a Capitol Imaging Services center is that while screening mammograms are covered by the Affordable Care Act (with the 3D option covered by some health insurance plans), any additional imaging that follows the screening is subject to health insurance coverage and any deductibles.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 26, 2023

A steady increase in the volume of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) exams is occurring, especially at mid- to high-level community hospitals across the country. If staff choose the right subgroup of patients to examine with CCTA imaging, they can save their hospital, healthcare system, and insurance companies a lot of money.

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Capitol Imaging Services

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Take your insurance information with you. Bring your insurance cards and information with you to your appointment and mention any changes to your insurance since the last time you visited. Yes, it came be somewhat complicated, especially navigating through the maze of prices and health insurance coverage options.

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Aidoc

OCTOBER 16, 2023

When defining value within radiology, it may be the case that governments are not ready to reimburse hospitals and doctors for an AI-based tool, but the absence of this financial component does not call into question the value of the technology. The majority of both hospital-based and outpatient imaging is negative.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In patients treated at a memory clinic at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, amyloid PET scans detected brain pathology associated with the disease and led to changes in treatment plans in 36.5% Moreover, due to this lack of evidence, amyloid PET scans have yet to be reimbursed by the Chinese medical insurance system, they added.

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AuntMinnie

DECEMBER 5, 2023

AT was more often billed through commercial insurers (62.1%) than Medicare (37.9%), with the opposite true of VT (53.2% In addition, The Midwest and Southeast had the highest utilization of AT and VT, regardless of payer, and 61% of AT and 58% of VT procedures were performed in the outpatient hospital setting, according to the findings.

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 12, 2024

It's crucial to mitigate the factors that cause these delays -- which negatively affect patient care, wrote a team led by Ronilda Lacson, MD, PhD, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. more than 10 days after exam request) Factor Odds ratio (with 1 as reference) p-value Having public insurance 1.11 p Being female 1.11

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 26, 2024

According to an October 2023 article in Becker’s Hospital Review , “. Can you separately charge for AI based on reimbursement from either insurance, private payers, or until the U.S. If a patient has either no insurance or Medicare/Medicaid, the only option is to bill them separately for using AI.

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AuntMinnie

JUNE 6, 2024

A British Heart Foundation-funded study published May 29 in The Lancet co-authored by Chan used AI to analyze CCTA scans and clinical data from over 40,000 people at eight hospitals in the U.K. insurance claims data to study the clinical adoption of medical AI devices in the U.S.

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Aidoc

APRIL 3, 2023

In the last year alone, hospital losses amounted to billions while facing a healthcare labor shortage that presents its own set of challenges to bottom lines. Challenging Fiscal Realities Amongst the immense fiscal challenges facing providers today, hospital leaders are confronted by truly daunting financial realities: A majority of the U.S.

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Imaging Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Designed with data safety in mind, QP-Brain is compliant with both the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Intermountain Medical Imaging

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In addition to being as transparent as possible regarding what we charge, we provide services at a greater value than what you would get at the hospital or other testing facilities. We invite you to visit our page detailing hospital imaging costs versus IMI’s charges. At IMI, you pay $70. At IMI, you pay between $650 and $800.

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AuntMinnie

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The challenges have come from the physician community because the IDR process defined within the NSA to determine a price for services was unfairly skewed to the benefit of the insurance company payers. There are also concerns about the administrative fees related to filing a dispute, and the way the system of batching claims is set out.

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Aidoc

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The skeletal structure of the healthcare system, from government agencies and health insurers to hospital administrators and physicians, creates an ecosystem inundated with concrete obstacles when attempting to generate real change.

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Vesta Teleradiology

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

As the demand for healthcare services continues to surge and the shortage of healthcare workers persists, particularly in specialized fields, such as radiology, hospitals and healthcare centers find themselves facing the challenge of ensuring timely and accurate interpretations of medical imaging studies.

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Vesta Teleradiology

MAY 22, 2024

While these centers offer a convenient and efficient alternative to hospital-based imaging services, often providing faster appointments and reduced wait times, they do face challenges. Patients typically visit these centers for imaging tests prescribed by their healthcare providers to diagnose and monitor various medical conditions.

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