Health care reform and its impact on radiology practice.
CMS is testing a range of payment policy options, including pay for performance, bundled payments, and shared savings through accountable care organizations. Radiologists can anticipate that the basis for how they are paid by Medicare will change and that they will need to play a greater role than has been required of them in the traditional fee-for-service payment system to demonstrate that imaging studies are used safely and efficiently.
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California. Electronic address: abindman@medsfgh.ucsf.edu.
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Affordable Care Act; Medicare; payment policy