Title
How Radiologists Are Paid: An Economic History, Part II: Advanced Imaging and Radiologists' Incomes
UMMS Affiliation
Department of Radiology
Publication Date
2020-03-24
Document Type
Article
Disciplines
Health Economics | History of Science, Technology, and Medicine | Radiology
Abstract
The advent of the CT scanner in the early 1970s removed much, if not all, of the morbidity and discomfort previously associated with diagnostic imaging studies. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, advances in CT technology allowed radiologists to scan "better and faster." The professional fee for reading a CT study was higher than for reading a radiograph, an uncontroversial policy. But estimating the technical fee for using CT (and later MR) raised problems that would persist for at least 30 years. Consistently generous technical fees created potential incentives to create and fill advanced imaging capacity and contributed to the emerging problem of health care inflation.
Keywords
Economics, history, radiologists
DOI of Published Version
10.1016/j.jacr.2020.02.013
Source
Levy F, Rosen MP. How Radiologists Are Paid: An Economic History, Part II: Advanced Imaging and Radiologists' Incomes. J Am Coll Radiol. 2020 Mar 24:S1546-1440(20)30171-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jacr.2020.02.013. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32220579. Link to article on publisher's site
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR
Related Resources
PubMed ID
32220579
Repository Citation
Levy F, Rosen MP. (2020). How Radiologists Are Paid: An Economic History, Part II: Advanced Imaging and Radiologists' Incomes. Radiology Publications. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacr.2020.02.013. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/radiology_pubs/529