“There is a really big push by payors right now for high-quality, low-cost imaging, and we’re seeing a lot less of hospital outpatient imaging because it costs so much more,” he said. “MR is not an inexpensive modality, but the information we get from it can be very useful. What we need to make sure of is that we are using it in an appropriate fashion.”



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