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NYT: Double CT Scans Unnecessary, Cost Medicare $25 million a year
Hundreds of hospitals across the country needlessly exposed patients to radiation by giving patients doubled-up CT chest scans a front page article in Saturday's New York Times found. Assessing Medicare outpatient claims for 2008 (the most recent data available), Times reporters Walt Bogdanich and Jo Craven McGinty found that about 75,000 patients received double scans, one using iodine (Drug information on iodine) contrast, one without. Each scan exposed patients to 350 times the radiation of a traditional X-ray – the primary concern of physicians commenting for the Times — and cost Medicare $25 million.
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