Friday, May 14, 2010

What is the Cost of that CT?

by Michelle A. Finkel, InsiderMedicalAdmissions.com

Check out this interesting NYT's article "Teaching Physicians the Price of Care." When I was in residency we were taught to consider whether a test would change management before ordering it, but we never explicitly reviewed prices.

What's provocative is that some systems reward physicians financially for expensive testing. That topic is notably missing from the article.