The complaint alleges two Tampa Bay, Florida-area healthcare groups did not abide by their own stated policies after a scan was ordered to be completed "STAT."
Lags in education and coordination along the reporting chain, among other issues, contributed to the nearly 17-month delay in implementing accurate coding measures, Duke University experts reported.
National Institutes of Health and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center researchers shared their findings in the March issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Pairing near-infrared spectroscopy and intravascular ultrasound spotted more than 3,600 untreated plaques missed by other diagnostic and clinical tests, according to a new prospective study.