{"id":14313,"date":"2019-10-22T08:23:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14313"},"modified":"2019-10-22T08:23:40","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T12:23:40","slug":"a-million-dollar-marketing-juggernaut-pushes-3d-mammograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=14313","title":{"rendered":"A Million-Dollar Marketing Juggernaut Pushes 3D Mammograms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>When Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens made an appointment for a mammogram last year, she expected a simple breast cancer screening \u2015 not a heavy-handed sales pitch.<\/p>\n<p>A receptionist asked if she wanted a free upgrade to a \u201c3D mammogram,\u201d or tomosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said there\u2019s a new approach and it\u2019s much better, and it finds all cancer,\u201d said McCaskill-Stevens, who declined the offer. Continue reading article <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/a-million-dollar-marketing-juggernaut-pushes-3d-mammograms\/\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-899\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) When Dr. Worta McCaskill-Stevens made an appointment for a mammogram last year, she<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14314,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14313\/revisions\/14314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}