The mission of the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute® is to establish foundational evidence for health policy and radiology practice that promotes the effective and efficient use of health care resources and improves patient care.
April 10, 2024
A new study by researchers at NYU Langone Health, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute found lower rates of osteoporosis screening among Asian American and other non-white Medicare beneficiaries in the U.S. when compared with the screening rate among white beneficiaries. Read More
April 3, 2024
The latest Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study shows that radiologists in radiology-only practices score significantly lower in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Merit-based Incentive Payment System in 2021. Read More
March 28, 2024
New research demonstrates that the use of CT angiography for patients with headache or dizziness increased dramatically over 5 years in the emergency department of a large medical center. Simultaneously the rate of positive findings on those same exams decreased. Read More
March 27, 2024
Medical imaging has previously been identified as a potential driver of U.S. healthcare spending growth. A study by the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute evaluated the degree to which imaging has contributed to aggregate medical cost growth. Read More
March 8, 2024
Seventy-six percent of interventional radiologists (IRs) identified using a new research method were mislabeled as diagnostic radiologists in Medicare data, according to the latest study from the Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI), supported by the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR). Read More
January 24, 2024
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study developed a first-of-its-kind comorbidity index predictive of utilization of advanced imaging. The Neiman Imaging Comorbidity Index (NICI) fills a gap in risk-adjustment methods for imaging utilization. Read More
January 19, 2024
A study by the Neiman Health Policy Institute found that, by 2021, only 1.1% of radiologists’ commercial claims were out of network (OON), down from 12.6% in 2007. As such, by 2021, radiologists practiced almost exclusively in-network. Read More
January 17, 2024
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute study found that clinicians who dispute insurer payments under the No Surprises Act will typically pay fees in excess of recovered payments. Read More
October 16, 2023
A new Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute (HPI) and American College of Radiology® (ACR®) Data Science Institute (DSI) study projects that new U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved artificial intelligence (AI) medical imaging products will increase five-fold by 2035. Read More
October 11, 2023
The Harvey L. Neiman Health Policy Institute has announced the release of Neiman Almanac 2.0. The Neiman Almanac is an online public resource that provides imaging-focused Medicare data back to 2004, including national and state trends in spending and utilization. Read More