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RBMs can cause problems for patients

November 6, 2008 — 5:10pm ET | By Dan Bowman
Being a middleman has never been popular. But it appears that radiology benefits managers, or RBMs, really have their work cut out for them. According to a Wall Street Journal article, RBMs, which... Read more...

Trend: Huge growth in use of CT scans troubles observers

September 9, 2008 — 9:45am ET | By Anne Zieger
At one point, CT scans were used now and then, when doctors had few alternatives. Today, however, CT scans have become a standard method for diagnosing ordinary problems like kidney stones, frequent... Read more...

GAO report recommends imaging cost controls

July 15, 2008 — 9:06am ET | By Anne Zieger
A new report from the Government Accountability office is recommending that CMS look at ways to control Medicare's fast-growing imaging costs. In its research, the agency found that Medicare spending... Read more...

FL doctor pays $7M to settle federal fraud suit

April 16, 2008 — 6:59am ET
A physician who owns a Boca Raton, FL-based chain of medical imaging centers has agreed to pay $7 million to settle charges that he overcharged Medicare for services and ordered unnecessary tests.... Read more...

Atlanta not-for-profits wage advertising war

April 7, 2008 — 6:59am ET
An advertising war going on between not-for-profit hospitals in the Atlanta metro is a case in point that more than ever, such hospitals have to use hard-line commercial techniques if they want to... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Farrah Fawcett's cancer records illegally reviewed; Women's Hospital in TX to close; and much more...

April 3, 2008 — 7:59am ET
> Prior to Britney Spears's hospital files being illegally viewed by some members of UCLA's medical staff, Farrah Fawcett suffered the same fate. Records of her cancer treatments at the same... Read more...

Are medical scans being overprescribed?

March 26, 2008 — 7:59am ET
According to an article from the AP, many insurance companies are concerned with cost and safety concerns of medical scans, as well as a tendency for those scans (such as CT scans) to be... Read more...

Cigarette company funded cancer study

March 26, 2008 — 7:59am ET
According to an article in the New York Times, a 2006 study that concluded that 80 percent of lung cancer deaths could be prevented by the use of CT scans was backed by grants from a cigarette... Read more...

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