Medical imaging for managed care plan doubles in 10 years

November 12, 2008 Medical imaging for managed care plan doubles in 10 years By James Brice A Seattle nonprofit managed care plan has experienced the same rapid growth in high-tech medical imaging utilization as federal health insurance programs. The 377,000-member Group Health Cooperative's per-beneficiary use of high-tech imaging more than doubled from 1997 to 2006, according to researchers from GHC's Center for Health Studies and the University of California, San Francisco. Their findings were based on an analysis of more than five million imaging studies.

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