How Radiologists Are Paid: An Economic History, Part III: The Bubble Years

With the collapse of the Clinton health care reforms, advanced imaging entered an economic bubble. Between 1995 and 2006, the number of CT and MRI studies almost tripled, from 21 million to 62 million and from 9.1 to 26.6 million, respectively. The increase reflected increases in both the number of scanners and the number of scans generated per CT or MRI scanner. Without restrictions, the profits generated by CT and MR ownership inevitably spread from hospitals first to imaging centers and later to individual physicians ’ offices and led to potential for conflict of interest and self-referral.
Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - Category: Radiology Authors: Tags: Original article Source Type: research