Nationwide price variability for an elective, outpatient imaging procedure

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 444-452

  Pasalic, Dario ^a   Lingineni, Ravi K ^b   Cloft, Harry J ^b   Kallmes, David F ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Health care costs; MRI; price transparency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; KNEE RADIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL FEE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; POPULATION DENSITY; AMBULATORY CARE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RADIOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

AMBULATORY CARE; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; RADIOLOGY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929990559     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: 1558349X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2014.11.024     Document Type: Article

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