Medicare Payments for Noninvasive Diagnostic Imaging Are Now Higher to Nonradiologist Physicians Than to Radiologists

Iglehart, 2009, Health insurers and medical-imaging policy—a work in progress, N Engl J Med, 360, 1030, 10.1056/NEJMhpr0808703 Winter, 2008, Paying accurately for imaging services in Medicare, Health Aff (Millwood), 27, 1479, 10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1479 Levin, 2009, The disproportionate effects of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 on radiologists' private office MRI and CT practices compared with those of other physicians, J Am Coll Radiol, 6, 620, 10.1016/j.jacr.2009.05.010 Levin DC, Rao VM, Parker L, Frangos AJ, Sunshine JH. Bending the curve: the recent marked slowdown in growth of noninvasive diagnostic imaging. AJR, in press.