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...doctors in the U.S. now are PCPs, compared with 5 out of 10 elsewhere in the world. Those family physicians who remain find themselves in a constant money chase, meeting their monthly nut with the help of the revenue they make by prescribing tests - X-rays, CT scans, EKGs - that may or may not be strictly necessary but generate a lot of separate billing. (See 10 health-care-reform...
...Haven police's sole "person of interest" in the Yale murder case—lab technician Ray Clark, 24—was arrested around 8:30 a.m. this morning at a Super 8 Motel in Cromwell, CT, and charged with murder. The police has taken him to the New Haven police headquarters in an unmarked police car, and he's expected to be arraigned within the next 24 hours. Clark's bond is set at $3 million, and Chief James Lewis did not designate a motive beyond “an issue of workplace violence...
...police stopped short of calling Clark a suspect when they detained him on Tuesday to obtain DNA samples and searched his apartment. They released him from custody around 3 a.m. on Wednesday, when he subsequently fled to a Super 8 Motel less than 10 miles away from Middletown, CT, where he has been living in an apartment with his fiancee. The police surrounded the motel on Wednesday and were closely monitoring...
Starting with expensive procedures like CAT scans. The clearer and more comprehensive x-ray imaging known as computerized tomography (CT) is certainly one of the most valuable recent advances in medical technology. But doctors are gorging on it: the number of CAT scans performed in the U.S. each year has leapt more than 200% in the past decade, and a third of them are likely unnecessary, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. The overuse is acute in cities like Miami because doctors and hospitals feel they have to justify the glut of CT machines and related personnel they...
That's helping to drive costs through the roof. I had no idea when they wheeled me into the CT salon to detect my kidney stone that I was getting not one but two CAT scans performed - abdominal and pelvic - at almost $3,500 a pop. I've since learned from medical experts that one would have sufficed. And even if my insurance provider did end up paying closer to $2,000 for each scan, that's still well above the less than $1,500 average CT screening cost...