Healthcare Costs
Virtual colonoscopy is considerably more expensive because it identifies problems outside the colon
Published in Managed Care Weekly Digest, November 13th, 2006
"Virtual colonoscopy will certainly play a role in the future of colon cancer screening," said gastroenterologist Richard S. Bloomfeld, MS, MD, assistant professor of medicine at Wake Forest Baptist and a member of the research team. "It is important to understand the implications of findings outside the colon before we advocate wide-spread use of this technology."
Virtual colonoscopy, also...
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