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Report From The Field

REPORT FROM THE FIELD

The Case Of CT Angiography: How Americans View And Embrace New Technology

DURING HIS CAREER as a cardiologist, Jason Cole of Alabama has seen thousands of patients with suspected heart disease. When he first started practicing several years ago, he’d send an average of four or five patients each day to a lab for a cardiac catheterization test—an invasive procedure to see if blockages threatened their hearts. For the test, patients have a thin catheter pushed up though a groin artery and into the heart. Contrast dye is injected, and x-ray pictures show if narrowing or blockages impede the flow of blood. For patients with blockages, various medical and surgical treatments . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Benefits Versus Costs

 

Constraints Versus Innovation

 

CTA And Medicare

 

Physicians’ Response

 

Industry’s Response

 

Congress’s Response

 

Current Status And Stance

 

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