Unnecessary use of CT scans, MRIs and X-rays drives up medical costs while radiation from some of these tests raises cancer risks.
Physicians with higher imaging rates may have been trained differently, have concerns about lawsuits, be steering patients to their own equipment for profit or be reacting to patients’ demands for imaging tests.
Read the Florida Times-Union report on imaging.
Read Becker’s coverage on Hospital Compare and imaging.
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