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Just curious with all the talk about controlling the escalating cost of medical imaging procedures, I wonder if there will be concrete plans for medicare, 3rd party insurance companies to start paying less per procedure/study?
My question is how would this trend impact the radiology field in the future? I know in the past people have compensated by reading more images faster in a day. But there is got to be a limit to how many tests one can read in a day... you can not keep reading faster and faster indefinitely. And if rates per read keeps going down, what does that leaves the compensation for rads?
Just a thought, and I will be glad to hear your opinion on this.
My question is how would this trend impact the radiology field in the future? I know in the past people have compensated by reading more images faster in a day. But there is got to be a limit to how many tests one can read in a day... you can not keep reading faster and faster indefinitely. And if rates per read keeps going down, what does that leaves the compensation for rads?
Just a thought, and I will be glad to hear your opinion on this.