Cardiac Test Payments
Cardiac Test Payments
A study from Duke University suggests possibly unnecessary cardiac stress tests are more frequent among patients whose doctors have the equipment in their office and can bill for the procedures.
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" Financial incentives for doctors may lead to unnecessary cardiac imaging tests after analyzing three years' worth of claims from the national insurance company researchers at duke university medical center found patients whose positions built for use of their cardiac imaging equipment an interpretation of results were much more likely to undergo such tests. Guidelines from the American College of Cardiology seeing nuclear tests and echo cardiac other fees should only be done on some heart disease patients when they have additional symptoms or another cardiac event. Some experts are concerned that over testing can lead to other invasive procedures that may not improve patient outcomes."
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