Personal Injury Law

Doctors Find Windfall in Self-Referrals

By Edward Bills

As debate over a proposed health care overhaul continues, lawmakers and other parties have failed to address how to rein in so-called physician self-referrals that critics argue significantly drive up medical costs, the Washington Post reports. According to documents, one medical practice ordered 700 percent more CT scans in the months after it purchased its own imaging device. The practice was able to draw insurance reimbursements for each of the self-referred scans, the newspaper notes.

Full post as published by Bodily Injury Blog on August 03, 2009 (boomark / email).