Almost a third of physicians surveyed will bow to patients’ wishes if an MRI is demanded. With patient satisfaction and physician ratings becoming more important, expect this number to rise:
“There’s a lot of pressure on physicians to keep their patients happy,” Blumenthal says. “Part of the problem with the American health care system has been that there is no throttle on test-ordering.”
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Bigger co-payments are the answer to this problem, plain and simple. If that MR came with an automatic $300 charge to the patient, no passing that to a secondary, people would be asking whether the study was necessary instead of asking for the ride through the magnet.
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