[Thriptic]

Very few modern insurance plans pay per procedure and that will be done away with entirely as time goes on. Typically physicians are paid a flat rate per patient or a flat rate per diagnosis with a complexity multiplier. This creates an incentive to NOT perform imaging unless it's necessary.

[telchar]

In what country? The US is still mostly per per procedure. There are codes for procedures and for diagnoses and they both get factored into the bill.

[gwright]

Take a look at DRGs. In the US they were first used for payments in the Medicare system but they have expanded outside that program over the years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnosis-related_group