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Utilization Management in Radiology

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Medical imaging is a tremendous diagnostic tool within medicine. The ability to non-invasively detect and screen for disease holds significant impact for medical or surgical treatment decisions. Monitoring of disease progression, whether infectious, inflammatory, or neoplastic is possible due to medical imaging. Over the years, access to medical imaging modalities such as X-ray, ultrasound, magnetic resonance (MR), computed tomography (CT), and positron-emission tomography (PET) has dramatically increased. In addition to expenditures related to pharmaceuticals, imaging is the next largest segment of costs for health plans, both private and public. As a result, significant growth of imaging utilization is a growing concern for healthcare. Appropriate utilization of imaging is a very important topic within healthcare utilization and optimization of decisions support systems, guidelines, and value-based imaging is critical to the future.

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Choy, G., Ryu, A. (2017). Utilization Management in Radiology. In: Lewandrowski, K., Sluss, P. (eds) Utilization Management in the Clinical Laboratory and Other Ancillary Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34199-6_24

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