Saturday 26 January 2013

With Or Without Knowledge Of Price, Hospital Imaging Test Ordering By Doctors Remain The Same

In a study designed to see if doctors who are told the exact price of expensive medical tests like MRIs in advance would order fewer of them, Johns Hopkins researchers got their answer: No. In a report published online in the Journal of the American College of Radiology, the researchers found that revealing the costs of MRIs and other imaging tests up front had no impact on the number of tests doctors ordered for their hospitalized patients... via Health News from Medical News Today Read More Here..

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