Increasing % of studies read by midlevels... what does this mean for the future?

Trends in Diagnostic Imaging by Non-Physician Practitioners and Associations with Urbanicity and Scope-of-Practice Authority We aimed to assess the changing share of diagnostic imaging billed by NPPs and how such changes differ by urbanicity within the context of scope-of-pr… www.sciencedirect.com "Studying 110 million imaging claims from commercially insured and Medicare Advantage patients, we found significant increases in imaging claims billed by NPPs (PAs + NPs) between 2016 and 2020. Our findings confirm trends recently reported in Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries, wherein NPPs interpreted 1.27% of diagnostic imaging studies performed in 2015, up from 0.01% in 1994. Specifically, we found that... Read more
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