The mission of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute® is to establish foundational evidence for health policy and radiology practice that promotes the effective and efficient use of health care resources and improves patient care.
February 19, 2025
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study found that among women receiving treatment for uterine fibroids, those with Medicaid were more likely to receive uterine artery embolization than those with commercial insurance. The research examined the propensity for women to receive either surgical treatment or the less invasive UAE procedure for uterine fibroids. Read More
February 12, 2025
Companion studies from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute published today in the Journal of the American College of Radiology estimated the future radiologist workforce (supply) and imaging utilization (demand) through 2055. The objective of these studies was to inform the policy discussion surrounding the current shortage of radiologists in the United States by projecting Read More
December 20, 2024
Previously in 2024, researchers at the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute published a novel risk-adjustment score—the Neiman Imaging Comorbidity Index (NICI)—predictive of patients’ advanced imaging use. Now, these researchers have published more extensive validation of the NICI to test its utility in datasets other than the claims dataset from which it was developed. Read More
December 18, 2024
A new HPI study found that Medicaid patients residing in states with higher Medicaid reimbursement were more likely to receive medical imaging. However, the number of imaging exams for Medicaid patients who underwent imaging did not vary based on reimbursement differences. Read More
December 13, 2024
A recent study by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute demonstrates that mobile mammography is generally used by women otherwise unlikely to be screened, and thus is complementary to facility-based mammography rather than a substitute for it. Read More
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