HCFO Grantee Presents at APHA on Physician Financial Self-Interest

Mythreyi Bhargavan, Ph.D., director of research at the American College of Radiology, and Jonathan H. Sunshine, Ph.D., senior director of research at the American College of Radiology, presented preliminary findings from their HCFO study at the American Public Health Association (APHA) Conference  [1]in San Diego, October, 25-29. Their study explores the extent to which small area variation in health care utilization and expenditures is accounted for by physicians with a financial self-interest, particularly as it relates to imaging procedures.