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Imaging Utilization and Medical Homes: Early Results Suggest Cost Reduction Opportunity May Be Modest

on August 10, 2010  |  Permalink

Topics: Medical Home, Physician Issues, Imaging, Service Lines, Medical Home Finance, Cross-Continuum Impact

Our colleague Shay Pratt, who leads the Advisory Board's research program on imaging, the Imaging Performance Partnership, just pointed out to us some interesting data about medical homes and imaging utilization. In this story about practices designated as medical homes by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (consisting of 1800 physicians in 500 practices), those physicians had a lower utilization of imaging for adults:

 

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Imaging Utilization and Medical Homes: Early Results Suggest Cost Reduction Opportunity May Be Modest