Non Radiologists Receive Medicare Payments For Medical Imaging More Than Radiologists

According to a study, appearing in the January issue of the Journal of the American College of Radiology (JACR), Medicare payments for non-invasive medical screening, involving computed tomography (CT) scans and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are lower to radiologists than to non radiologists.

  

David C. Levin, MD, lead author of the study mentioned that “Radiologists have always been considered the physicians who “control” non-invasive diagnostic imaging (NDI) and are primarily responsible for its growth. Yet non-radiologists have become increasingly aggressive in their performance and interpretation of imaging".

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Non Radiologists Receive Medicare Payments For Medical Imaging More Than Radiologists