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The Coalition for Ethical Imaging Announces Support for Diagnostic Imaging Bills Introduced in Texas Legislature
Date:3/11/2009

istration of equipment
  • Insufficient disclosure to patients when a physician has a financial interest in the imaging equipment or facility to which they refer
  • Nontransparent billing practices

    • The group is focusing its efforts on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) and positron emission tomography (PET).

    The bills would achieve the following:

    • Improve patient safety and ensure quality, consistency and accuracy by developing an accreditation and registration system for the state that would require that radiology facilities and equipment meet basic quality requirements and use nationally accepted criteria to ensure patient safety.
    • Create a study by the Department of State Health Services that will compare the rates at which diagnostic imaging services are prescribed by physicians who have a financial interest in imaging equipment compared to rates for physicians of the same specialty who have no financial interest in such equipment. This study would be conducted using information from electronic forms already generated by imaging centers and physician's offices.
    • Require physicians to disclose to patients that they have a financial interest in the imaging centers/equipment to which they are referring. Similar laws are already in place in more than 23 states.
    • Require transparency in diagnostic imaging billing practices to ensure that patients know the break-down of the costs, if services were "marked up" and if a trained radiologist performed the service.

    The proposed legislation would NOT:

    • Restrict physician ownership of diagnostic imaging machines or equipment.
    • Impact X-rays, mammograms, ultrasounds or other common tests frequently conducted at physicians' offices.

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