Diagnostic Imaging
Self-referring physicians behind increase in diagnostic imaging
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, May 9th, 2008
Based on a study also appearing in the same issue, Dr. Vivian Ho, professor of medicine at BCM and associate professor of economics at Rice University, wrote: "Increases in utilization rates were substantially higher for scans performed by self-referring physicians than for images that originated from a referral to a radiologist or hospital."
The increase was seen...
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