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To: dr.john who wrote (70)	7/30/1999 8:08:00 AM
From: Oak Tree	Respond to of 100

I agree with you completely. Cardiologists love IVUS. They can see what they are doing clearly instead of guessing based on floro. It takes more than a few minutes and its a thousand dollar plus throw away item. In the end of the day they have done one less cath and spent several $1000. Also, they sometimes have to later prove to the blues that the patient needed it -- wasting more time. In the end they have lost a megabuck a year per cath lab. Perhaps if there was reimbursement for IVUS and they even had a markup, IVUS would become standard. My cardiologist friends would love to do IVUS on everyone -- they actually do very few and most of those are on protocols wherein the IVUS costs are covered.