Provider Non-Compliance to Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines May Be Lethal for Many Patients
May 18, 2018
May 18, 2018
RESTON, Virginia, May 18 -- The American College of Radiology issued the following news release:
Physician ignorance of lung cancer screening guidelines, lack of patient and physician education on the benefits of screening and drastically low Medicare reimbursement for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening exams may be resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths each year.
More than 220,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2018. Nearly 1 . . .
Physician ignorance of lung cancer screening guidelines, lack of patient and physician education on the benefits of screening and drastically low Medicare reimbursement for low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) lung cancer screening exams may be resulting in thousands of unnecessary deaths each year.
More than 220,000 people will be diagnosed with lung cancer in 2018. Nearly 1 . . .