Author Interviews, Cost of Health Care, Medicare, Radiology / 25.04.2017
Medicare Has Cut Radiology Payments To Physicians by 33% Over Ten Years
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
David C. Levin, MD
Department of Radiology
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA 19107.
MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Response: Radiology had been previously identified as the most rapidly growing of all physician services in the Medicare program during the early years of the 2000-2009 decade. But there have been deep cuts in imaging reimbursement since then. We wanted to determine how these cuts have affected total Medicare payments for imaging.
Our main findings were that since 2006, payments to physicians for imaging under the Medicare Physician Fee schedule have dropped by $4 billion per year, or about 33%.
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