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
Each January many of us make a New Year’s resolution to improve our health through better diet and more exercise. In 2012, why not also resolve to staying up to date with your regular health screenings. Read More
Last week, The New York Times and The Atlantic published misleading articles that omitted central facts about the effectiveness and use of medical imaging. Read More
This morning on TODAY, E! Network’s celebrity news personality Giuliana Rancic announced that she has breast cancer. 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
A recent study has found that prostate cancer rates among active-duty Air Force servicemen are three times higher than they were in the early 1990s. However, researchers point out that there is more to this discovery than people might think. Read More
A study published today in the British Journal of Cancer found that “women over 70 are being diagnosed with breast cancer at a later stage leading to lower survival from the disease in the elderly.” 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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