Data from Definitive Healthcare’s platform on commercial claims analytics. Top CPT codes are from imaging center reports from CY 2018 and include diagnostic radiology procedures.
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Most common radiology procedures in the U.S. in 2018, by number of procedures
The graph illustrates the most common radiology procedures at imaging centers in the U.S. in 2018, by number of procedures carried out that year.
During that year, around 300,000 MRIs of the brain stem without dye were carried out at imaging centers in the U.S., making it the seventh most common radiology procedure.
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