Erwin Cruz, MD, a Dallas County neurologist, has been awarded a $10.66 million verdict after jurors determined he had been defrauded by business partners from two North Texas diagnostic medical imaging centers.
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For the first time, integrated whole-body PET/MR has been demonstrated to be feasible in a clinical setting for diagnostic oncology and produce high quality images comparable to conventional PET/CT, according to a study published in the June issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
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Several specific healthcare costs for the privately insured in 2010 increased by almost three times the rate of general inflation, according to a report from the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI). The per capita spending on inpatient and outpatient facilities, professional procedures and prescription drugs rose 3.3 percent in 2010 for beneficiaries under age 65 with private, employer-sponsored group insurance.
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Despite the benefit to lung cancer mortality rates associated with low-dose CT screening as demonstrated by the National Lung Screening Trial, enthusiasm for LDCT should be kept in context. That's because much uncertainty remains about the potential harms of screening and the generalizability of results, according to a review of relevant literature published online May 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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Estimating the cost of failure as a potential $4 billion to $12 billion drag on U.S. healthcare, the Joint Commission is asking the clinical engineering community to be its wingman as the JC seeks to persuade the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to relax its controversial December 2011 directive on medical equipment maintenance.
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