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Biotech / Medical : Caprius(CAPR), Breast MRI(former ANMR/MAMO)
CAPR 5.725-3.5%1:06 PM EST
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To: luis a. garcia who wrote (2287)12/9/1997 11:36:00 PM
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This is where you're wrong. Medicare reimburses less than $50 for a screening mammo. Managed care contracts generally reimburse at a percentage of that -- e.g. 80% of Medicare rate, etc. And that is for the whole exam -- tech, machine, film, radiologist interpretation... Not profitable at all.

This is one reason everyone is pursuing digital mammo (btw, much bigger news and interest at RSNA than MRI mammo)-- because the exam goes right into a workstation, instead of to film, and computer-aided diagnostic programs can go to work to find suspicious areas even the best mammographer can't see. Plus docs can zoom in on specific areas, digitally subtract different energies so only certain types of tissue (e.g. micro-calcifications)show up. MRI can't touch that, even with contrast agents. I think you guys are starting to believe your own postings. The fact is, x-ray can't be beat today for screening. MRI is good for specific diagnostic mammo exams, especially when a woman has implants that impede the x-ray. But if you looked at the RSNA "walk through the week" brochures (listed all relevant papers, courses) digital mammo was the subject of an overwhelming majority of presentations.
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