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Gender Differences in Medicare Practice and Payment of Neuroradiologists

Ajay Malhotra, Chris Lee, Mihir Khunte, Dheeman Futela, Raj Moily, Seyedmehdi Payabvash, Dheeraj Gandhi and Max Wintermark
American Journal of Neuroradiology June 2025, 46 (6) 1093-1099; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3174/ajnr.A8633
Ajay Malhotra
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging (A.M., M.K., D.F., R.M., S.P.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Chris Lee
bYale University (C.L.), New Haven, Connecticut
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Mihir Khunte
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging (A.M., M.K., D.F., R.M., S.P.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Dheeman Futela
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging (A.M., M.K., D.F., R.M., S.P.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Raj Moily
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging (A.M., M.K., D.F., R.M., S.P.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Seyedmehdi Payabvash
aFrom the Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging (A.M., M.K., D.F., R.M., S.P.), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
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Dheeraj Gandhi
cInterventional Neuroradiology (D.G.), University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
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dDepartment of Neuroradiology (M.W.), MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
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