The Roller Coaster Continues (5)
When government insistence on slicing prices runs up in opposition to increasingly technologically advanced modern medication, the ensuing tangle of public well being regulation could be just as complicated and unhelpful as the convoluted insurance policies of any private health insurance firm. An excellent example of that is the current state of affairs for Ontario residents looking for PET scans. I’m providing this page as a guide for Ontario residents and an illustration of medical rationing gone mad.
Additionally, as PET and nuclear medicine objects are positioned on the Diagnostic Imaging Services Table, all websites should be accredited under the federal government’s Diagnostic Imaging Accreditation Scheme previous to performing Medicare eligible PET scans. The combined CT & PET knowledge effectively will increase specificity and sensitivity of each examination. Lymphoma in the axilla (green on fused CT picture of the upper chest on picture under) might be easily overlooked when evaluated …
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