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Biotech / Medical : IMAT - ultrafast tomography for coronary artery disease
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To: art slott who wrote (2419)4/28/1998 11:09:00 AM
From: Bruce Rozenblit  Read Replies (1) of 3725
 
I understand that the Houston HeartScan center is doing well. A Chiropractor friend of mine told me that most states have laws that prohibit people from getting X-ray tests on their own. They have to have a doctor's referral. Texas does not have any such restrictions so people can just walk in for the test. If that is so then it is fruitless to market to the public in those states and helps to explain the dismal performance of the clinics.

She also told me that most HMO, PPO insurance plans will kick a doctor off their program if he orders procedures that they do not endorse. That's why that Doctor who treated me last winter was afraid to do a $30 blood test. He didn't want to get in trouble with the insurance company over a non-critical situation.

If this is true, then there is tremendous pressure on doctors to not buck the system and not prescribe the scan. Would any medical people out there would like to comment on the validity of this information?
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