Q&A: Does Tort Reform Affect Rates of Diagnostic Imaging Services?

摘要

Recent study examines diagnostic imaging rate differences for all states; lead author Seth Stein, MD, helps dissect the information in this Q&A. It's little known outside the healthcare industry that each hospital has a list of each procedure's price tag - and no two lists, commonly called the chargemaster, are the same. Chargemaster rates are routinely higher than the reimbursement rates from Medicare, but is there a price difference between states that have tort reform regulations that cap non-economic damages?