MDsave Launches Discounted Mammogram Campaign
MDsave, the healthcare services platform connecting providers, employers, and patients to transactable healthcare, has launched its annual campaign to reduce the cost of 2D and 3D screening mammograms.
MDsave, the healthcare services platform connecting providers, employers, and patients to transactable healthcare, has launched its annual campaign to reduce the cost of 2D and 3D screening mammograms.
The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA) has submitted comments to United States Preventive Services Task Force on its draft recommendation on breast cancer screening.
New American College of Radiology breast cancer screening guidelines now call for all women—particularly Black and Ashkenazi Jewish women—to have risk assessment by age 25 to determine if screening earlier than age 40 is needed.
Higher out-of-pocket costs for follow-up procedures after abnormal mammograms lead to lower utilization of subsequent diagnostic imaging, according to a Neiman Health Policy Institute study.
Read MoreThe U.S. FDA has updated mammography regulations under the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) to require facilities to notify patients about breast density, strengthen enforcement, and assist interpreting physicians in evaluating mammograms to improve breast cancer detection, with the changes to be implemented within 18 months.
Read MoreNew research suggests that radiotherapy does not improve survival rates for older patients in the early stages of breast cancer. The addition of radiotherapy alongside breast-conserving surgery and hormone therapy一the current standard treatment一made no difference to the death rates for patients 65 years or older, researchers say.
Read MoreBreast cancer risk estimates for individual women vary substantially depending on which risk assessment model is used, and women are likely receiving vastly different recommendations depending on the model used and the cutoff applied to define “high risk.”
Read MoreAccording to a new study, ultrafast MRI provides beneficial information that can be used in surgical planning, including determining the need to perform sentinel lymph node biopsy.
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