Building a CT colonography program: Necessary ingredients for reimbursement and clinical success

Radiology

Volumn 235, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 17-20

  Pickhardt, Perry J ^a   Taylor, Andrew J ^a   Johnson, Gary L ^b   Fleming, Lawrence A ^a   Jones, Debra A ^a   Pfau, Patrick R ^a   Reichelderfer, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Phys Plus Insurance Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER SCREENING; COLON POLYP; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC COLONOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; EDITORIAL; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATION; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT;

COLONOGRAPHY, COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RADIOLOGY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; REIMBURSEMENT MECHANISMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 15944375863     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2351041671     Document Type: Editorial

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