The WalMart of CAT-scans

By at 5:20 pm Monday, May 27

Great NYT piece about CAT Scan 2000, a fleet of CAT-scan vans that cruise the back-roads, trading hyper-detailed full-body scans for cash on the barrelhead, calling themselves "the WalMart of body-scanning."
"That's where science, the marketplace, and patients are caught in a bind," Dr. Kessler said. "This is a pretty heavy-duty exam that seems to have sort of escaped into the marketplace. We have a technology that's gotten caught in the gaps between the scientific agencies, the regulatory agencies, and the payers who pay for health care of all sorts. The fair evaluation of these procedures is no one's province. That's the gap here."
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