{"id":13811,"date":"2019-08-14T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13811"},"modified":"2019-08-14T08:10:10","modified_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:10:10","slug":"trump-administration-hits-brakes-on-law-to-curb-unneeded-medicare-ct-scans-mris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=13811","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Hits Brakes On Law To Curb Unneeded Medicare CT Scans, MRIs"},"content":{"rendered":"

(By Phil Galewitz for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n

Five years after Congress passed a law to reduce unnecessary MRIs, CT scans and other expensive diagnostic imaging tests that could harm patients and waste money, federal officials have yet to implement it.<\/p>\n

The law requires that doctors\u00a0consult clinical guidelines\u00a0set by the medical industry before Medicare will pay for many common exams for enrollees. Health care providers who go way beyond clinical guidelines in ordering these scans (the 5% who order the most tests that are inappropriate) will, under the law, be required after that to get prior approval from Medicare for their diagnostic imaging.\u00a0 Continue reading article here…<\/a><\/p>\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.<\/p>\n

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