Industry Points To Gaps In Study Naming Imaging As Key US Cost Driver

A study from Harvard researchers identified advanced imaging as one factor driving higher health-care costs in the US, but a coalition of imaging companies, physicians and patient groups said the study has not "accurately portrayed the state of medical imaging in the US." The researchers narrowly focused on the commercial market and failed to account for the ongoing adoption of appropriate use criteria (AUC) for imaging, says the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC.)

AMIC Executive Director Tim Trysla, said the results of the study, titled, "Health Care Spending in the United States and Other High-Income Countries," were misleading, because it "does not provide...