Senate report considers financial penalties for inappropriate imaging

May 1, 2009 Diagnostic Imaging. Senate report considers financial penalties for inappropriate imaging By James Brice Financial penalties would be enforced against physicians who frequently recommend inappropriate medical imaging under a set of policy options outlined in a potentially influential report issued April 30 by the Senate Finance Committee. Obama budget makes no assumptions about Medicare sustainable growth rate cuts Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA), the committee's ranking Republican, wrote the 51-page document that was the subject of a six-hour closed-door meeting of committee members on Thursday.

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