March 3, 2025
A new multi-institute study demonstrates the potential prevention and economic benefits from the opportunistic use of CT, defined as screening performed using CT images that were collected for a different purpose. The study showed that using CT imaging for osteoporosis could increase the screening rate in the Medicare population by 113% without requiring any additional imaging. Read More
February 26, 2025
New Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute research found significant differences in performance across radiologists in the CMS Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). The researchers examined a broad range of radiologist and practice characteristics and identified the set of factors that predicted whether a radiologist would score exceptionally, and thus receive the highest payment bonus, Read More
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
November 19, 2024
A new HPI study found non-physician practitioners’ (NPPs) share of imaging interpretation in office-based practices increased 117%, from 2.52% of Medicare imaging studies in 2013 to 5.47% in 2022. Interpretations by NPPs are performed by a small minority of NPPs with considerable variation by imaging modality and state. Read More
October 22, 2024
According to new research from the Neiman Institute, radiologists who teach residents are spending significantly less time each year in that teaching role. The study, published in JACR, tracked the workload of 35,595 radiologists in Medicare Part B claims data from 2008 to 2020. Read More
October 3, 2024
The latest Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study found that neurointerventionalists, who often deliver lifesaving and disability-sparing treatments for emergency stroke cases, have essentially no financially viable access to payment recovery through the No Surprises Act for professional mechanical thrombectomy out-of-network claims. MT is an effective treatment for emergent large vessel occlusions, such as ischemic stroke. Read More
