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Radiation overdoses prompt class-action suit against Cedars-Sinai, GE Healthcare
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and GE Healthcare have been named as defendants in a class-action suit representing patients who may have received radiation overdoses during CT brain perfusion scans at... Read more...
Hundreds of radiation overdoses went undetected for 18 months
It took 18 months before someone at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles noticed that hundreds of patients had received more than eight times the normal dose of radiation. The error was... Read more...
Study: Imaging tests almost double Americans' radiation exposure
A new study concludes that American's radiation exposure is doubled by common imaging tests over normal levels, though imaging still isn't dangerous overall, the authors suggest. The study, which... Read more...
RBMs can cause problems for patients
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
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
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
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
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...
> 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?
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...
