Benchmark of the Week: Imaging utilization by specialty, 2008-2010
Effective Oct 6, 2011
Published Oct 10, 2011
These charts examine imaging utilization from 2008 to 2010, with the pie chart showing specialty share of utilization and the bar graph displaying overall imaging utilization across all specialties. NOTE: A total of 10 high-utilization imaging codes from all four modalities were chosen to represent “imaging.” These codes are 71010 and 71020 for X-ray; 70450, 72130, 72193 and 74160 for CT; 70553, 72148 and 73721 for MRI; and, 78815 for PET.
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