Cost Accounting in Radiology: New Directions and Importance for Policy Export

@article{citeulike:1097498, abstract = {OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to promote insight into radiology costs through improvements in assessing patient-level cost data. Accurate patient costing is a prerequisite for establishing a proper payment system--one where the price paid for a service approximates the cost of delivering that service. In the absence of an accurate payment scheme, margins can vary significantly from one patient to the next. CONCLUSION. The resulting financial incentives skew the radiology marketplace away from the provision of efficient and appropriate care toward the selection of patients whose costs are low relative to reimbursements. 10.2214/AJR.05.0495}, author = {Muchantef, Karl and Forman, Howard P.}, citeulike-article-id = {1097498}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2214/AJR.05.0495}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.ajronline.org/cgi/content/abstract/185/6/1404}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16303989}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16303989}, day = {1}, doi = {10.2214/AJR.05.0495}, journal = {Am. J. Roentgenol.}, keywords = {accounting, cost}, month = {December}, number = {6}, pages = {1404--1407}, posted-at = {2007-02-10 00:09:38}, priority = {2}, title = {Cost Accounting in Radiology: New Directions and Importance for Policy}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2214/AJR.05.0495}, volume = {185}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1097498 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1097498 N2 - OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to promote insight into radiology costs through improvements in assessing patient-level cost data. Accurate patient costing is a prerequisite for establishing a proper payment system--one where the price paid for a service approximates the cost of delivering that service. In the absence of an accurate payment scheme, margins can vary significantly from one patient to the next. CONCLUSION. The resulting financial incentives skew the radiology marketplace away from the provision of efficient and appropriate care toward the selection of patients whose costs are low relative to reimbursements. 10.2214/AJR.05.0495 IS - 6 JF - Am. J. Roentgenol. EP - 1407 TI - Cost Accounting in Radiology: New Directions and Importance for Policy VL - 185 SP - 1404 KW - accounting KW - cost AU - Muchantef, Karl AU - Forman, Howard PY - 2005/12/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2214/AJR.05.0495 ER -