Cardiac stress imaging procedures more frequent among patients seen by physicians who provide and bill for these procedures

Tuesday, November 8, 2011 - 21:30 in Health & Medicine

Patients treated by physicians who billed for both technical (practice/equipment) and professional (supervision/ interpretation) components of nuclear and echocardiographic stress imaging tests were more likely to undergo such tests after coronary revascularization compared with patients of physicians who did not bill for these services, according to a new study.

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