[julie.young_645]

[link=https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/the-medical-ai-floodgates-open-at-a-cost-of-1000-per-patient/]https://lukeoakdenrayner.wordpress.com/2020/09/06/the-medical-ai-floodgates-open-at-a-cost-of-1000-per-patient/[/link]

[Unknown Member]

Looks like there is a annual cap on reimbursement of $25000 per subscription, which makes it look less bad.

[skysdad]

It’s a lot less alarmist if you actually read the details, or the excellent summary from Dr. Oakden-Rayner linked above.

[suman]

$25k per year, no wonder our country is going broke.

[jtpollock]

The move is actually a little worrisome. The ONLY thing precluding the wider implementation of AI is the lack of reimbursement. If that dam breaks, watch out.

[Robbro524_990]

Well that dam might break, but there’s not much water behind it.

You don’t have to be a math genius to realize Medicare is going broke, especially with the Boomers aging out of society.

Gonna be hard to pay for all of this new (and any) medical technology with an aging population and diminished tax base.

If push comes to shove, there’s always family medicine. 😉

[jonhanse_770]

If you read the post in the PDF titled “Whats Wrong with AI” it will give you a different perspective as well. 
 
AI is now recognized by CMS as a tool that can be used as part oif the interpretation process so you had better get used to it. Who gets the $$ for AI remains to be seen (it could go either way) but as of now there are no cuts being made to the radiologists payment so stop making a big deal out of nothing. No wait- I hear a chorus of rads all singing one of Queen’s finest songs- “I Want it All!!”
 
([link]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JB8xizXnT0)[/link]
 
i wouild worry more about RP scenarios than AI- and for the record I called the RP scenario over a decade ago when so many said no way no how…and called teleradiology nearly two decades ago too…Just saying.,..
 
PACSMan
aka Nostradamous
 
P.S I’m feeling old today and your bones are creaking chill with this…
[link]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ_EFAmj08[/link]

[bunnie_face_936]

Given max payout is 25K, can this be assumed to be targeted at smaller hospitals? Perhaps this is truly who would benefit most from this software anyways if thrombectomy needs to be done at a different facility, etc.
 
It will be interesting to see how this affects things actually. Will the urgency of the stroke code read decrease now that there’s this software? Then, with the <90 % sens and specs and perhaps slower reads from rads, I wonder how systemically this will change outcomes.

[Unknown Member]

This is outrageous. Reimbursement cuts to radiologists on one end and 1000 $ cash gifts for an useless algorithm ‘per case’ to venture capitalists. Just makes my blood boil.