Enthousiasme voor total body scan neemt af in USA
De New York Times bespreekt de snelle opkomst en val van Total Body Scan Centra.
In het artikel wordt aangegeven dat de deuren van de volgende centra gesloten zijn :
1) CT Screening International
2) AmeriScan
The business’s collapse, health care researchers say, holds lessons about the workings of American medicine.
It shows the limits of direct-to-consumer advertising and the power of dissuasion by professional societies, which warned against getting one of these scans. The tests, they said, would mostly find innocuous lumps in places like the thyroid or lungs, requiring rounds of additional tests to rule out real problems, and would miss common cancers, like those of the breast.
It also shows the workings of the medical market – when insurers refused to pay, requiring customers to dig into their own pockets for the tests, scanning centers found themselves cutting prices to compete. Within a year, some centers said, prices fell to less than $500 from $1,000 or more.
