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Imaging Among Fastest Growing Outpatient Procedures

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EVANSTON, Ill., June 13 -- Imaging procedures administered in outpatient hospital settings increased 44 percent between 1999 and 2001, according to a study released today by Solucient, which monitors trends in the health care business. Only recently adopted for the clinical setting, use of position emission tomography (PET) scans alone grew nearly 26 percent in this three-year period. The vast majority of that growth occurred in just one year, and may be due in part to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' decision in late 2000 to provide payment when PET imaging is used to diagnose...Read full article

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    Published: June 2003
    Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servicesclinical imagingNews & FeaturesPETposition emission tomographySolucient

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