DecisionHealth, DecisionHealth - 2010 Issue 10 (October)

Benchmark of the Week: Imaging utilization by specialty, 2008-2009

This chart shows how Medicare utilization of top imaging services has shifted by specialty from 2008 to 2009. Each "pie" represents all imaging services billed to Medicare in a given year. NOTE: Diagnostic radiology and interventional radiology were excluded from the pie, because while their utilization has fallen steadily, it's still large enough to overwhelm the chart (they accounted for 95.7% of imaging utilization in both 2008 and 2009).

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