ASNR Health Policy Links
Health Policy Resources — Publications, Webinars and Multimedia
In a time when imaging reimbursement and healthcare delivery in general are rapidly evolving, your ASNR remains actively engaged. The ASNR Health Policy Committee is involved in numerous coding, reimbursement, and advocacy initiatives related to neuroradiology procedures. The team also works aggressively in order to keep our members informed and updated on health policy issues. As a resource to our members, we have collected the following health policy related podcasts and articles by members of the ASNR HPC and others. We hope you find these useful in preparing your departments and practices for ongoing changes. If you have any questions or comments please feel free to reach out to William D. Donovan, MD, MPH, FACR (ASNR HPC Co-Chair) or Rahul Bhala, MBA, MPH (ASNR Public Affairs and Health Policy Strategy Officer).
HPC Blog Posts
September 18, 2023: AI Reimbursement Update: First CPT Category III Code in Neuroradiology
September 30, 2021: Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee Meeting Recap
July 21, 2021: Advocating for Advocacy
February 4, 2021: Radiology and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021
February 1, 2021: What’s the Latest with Clinical Decision Support?
October 2020: COVID-Specific CPT Codes Released
September 3, 2020: The Quadruple Aim: Radiologists and Physicians in the Center
August 8, 2020: Opinion: Limiting Treatment of Patients with Painful Vertebral Compression Fractures is Not Okay
Health Policy Week Webinars
ASNR Health Policy Week features a selection of webinars and podcasts brought to you by ASNR members to provide important updates and relevant information in the areas of advocacy and health policy.
- Health Policy: The Current Climate — WATCH HERE
- What Can Neuroradiologists Expect in the Biden Administration? — WATCH HERE
- Health Equity: What the Radiologist Needs to Know — WATCH HERE
- Show Me the Money: Reimbursement Models for Artificial Intelligence — WATCH HERE
- E&M Code Changes: Evolution Towards Value-Based Healthcare (Podcast) — WATCH HERE
Publications
Health Care Economics: A Study Guide for Neuroradiology Fellows, Part 2
Weiner, Tu, Javan, Taheri
Health Care Economics: A Study Guide for Neuroradiology Fellows, Part 1
Weiner, Tu, Javan, Taheri
An American Sickness: How Healthcare Became Big Business and How You Can Take It Back (Penguin, 2017)
Elizabeth Rosenthal, MD
– Perhaps the most approachable authoritative current text on American healthcare pricing. The author is Editor in Chief of Kaiser Health News; former reporter on health issues for the New York Times; and before that, a practicing Emergency Medicine physician.
The episode, the PTAC, cost, and the neurointerventionalist
Hirsch JA, Rosenkrantz AB, Liu RW, Manchikanti L, Nicola GN
MACRA 2.0: are you ready for MIPS?
Hirsch JA, Rosenkrantz AB, Ansari SA, et al
Fixing Medical Prices: How Physicians Are Paid. Harvard University Press, 2016.
Miriam Laugesen, PhD
– The history of the RBRVS, the AMA’s influence over medical pricing through the CPT and RUC process, insights and prognoses for physician payment in the years to come. Based on extensive research, the author, a professor in the Columbia School of Public Health, attended several RUC meetings and interviewed numerous stakeholders.
The RUC: a primer for neurointerventionalists
Joshua A Hirsch, Ezequiel Silva III, Gregory N Nicola, Robert M Barr, Jacqueline A Bello, Laxmaiah Manchikanti, William D Donovan
Component coding and the neurointerventionalist: a tale with an end
Joshua A Hirsch, William D Donovan, Thabele M Leslie-Mazwi, Greg N Nicola, Laxmaiah Manchikanti, Ezequiel Silva III
Neuroimaging Clinics of North America: The Resource-Based Relative Value Scale and Neuroradiology: ASNR’s History at the RUC
William D. Donovan, MD, MPH
AJNR: What Is the RUC?
William D. Donovan, MD, MPH
JACR: Professional Component Payment Reductions for Diagnostic Imaging Examinations When More Than One Service Is Rendered by the Same Provider in the Same Session: An Analysis of Relevant Payment Policy
Bibb Allen Jr, MD, William D. Donovan, MD, MPH, Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, Robert M. Barr, MD, Ezequiel Silva III, MD, Richard Duszak Jr, MD, Angela J. Kim, MS, Pam Kassing, MPA, RCC
JACR: Professional Efficiencies for Diagnostic Imaging Services Rendered by Different Physicians: Analysis of Recent Medicare Multiple Procedure Payment Reduction Policy
Richard Duszak Jr, MD, Ezequiel Silva III, MD, Angela J. Kim, MS, Robert M. Barr, MD, William D. Donovan, MD, MPH, Pamela Kassing, MPA, Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, Bibb Allen Jr, MD
Multimedia
MACRA 2.0 — JNIS podcast Jan 2017
Nicola, Rosencrantz, Hirsch
MACRA 101: Year 1 Basics for General, Small, and Rural Practices
Webinar by Dr. Greg Nicola, ASNR Economics Committee Chair, ACR MACRA Committee Chair
MACRA – the new value-based payment paradigms: Implications for the practicing radiologist
Webinar by Greg Nicola, ASNR Economics Committee Chair, ACR MACRA Committee Chair
Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery: Current Procedural Terminology
Josh Hirsch, MD Jacqueline Bello, MD and Raymond Tu, MD
Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery: Component Coding and the RUC
Josh Hirsch, MD Bill Donovan, MD and Zeke Silva, MD
