While California’s low-dose reporting legislation becomes law this summer, doctors and hospitals across the state have already taken significant steps to lower the dose of life-saving medical imaging exams. Read More
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) released a statement this week saying that fearful claims about radiation dose in diagnostic imaging procedures are excessive. Read More
This week, the U.S. Joint Commission issued an alert for hospitals to find ways to reduce patients’ exposure to repeated radiation doses. Commission president Dr. Mark Chassin remarked that while scans “should be used with caution,” he also noted that medical imaging is necessary. Read More
MITA released a report yesterday detailing the troubling impact of insurance coverage denials on patient access to medical imaging procedures. Data gathered by the Patient Advocacy Foundation (PAF) show that denials for patients seeking potentially life-saving medical imaging services have doubled in the past four years. Of even greater concern is the finding that 90 percent of the reversed denials for imaging services were actually covered by patients’ health plans. And on average, PAF’s professional case managers required 15.4 contacts per patient case to resolve the imaging issue, meaning it took on average more than 15 phone calls, letters or emails to determine why the imaging test was being denied coverage. Read More
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