With the recent adjustment, the conversion factor is now 1.77% lower than it was in 2023, at $33.2875, consulting firm Healthcare Administrative Partners notes. 

The figure places radiology 12th on a list of 39 specialties ranked in terms of total amount paid to physicians between 2013 and 2022.

Medicaid’s $50 billion in improper payments was the highest total for a single program—but it was also the most improved government program, cutting about $30 billion from its 2022 improper payments total. 

Only orthopedic surgeons and neurologists/psychiatrists received more industry payments from 2013 to 2022 than cardiologists. Also, the two prescription medications associated with the most physician payments were a blood thinner and an anticoagulant. 

First launched in 2021, Tellica Imaging has aimed to capitalize on the industry's shift away from hospitals to less costly freestanding sites

UHC has labeled an IR service docs have been delivering for 9 years as “unproven and not medically necessary due to insufficient evidence of efficacy." 

Dallas-based Steward Medical Group spans 450 practices, employing over 1,700 providers including 180-plus radiologists. 
 

The percentage of patients who received imaging services also declined from 46% in 2010 down to 40% by 2021, experts wrote in Health Affairs Scholar.