EviCore, a third-party vendor, denied the request for Horizon to cover the CT scan. An NJ bill would prohibit insurers from ...

On 20 April last year, 46-year-old Michelle died of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD). She had been diagnosed with the fatal brain-wasting disorder just two months earlier. Her family have told the ...

Using just one inhalation lung CT scan, a deep learning model can accurately diagnose and stage chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

Low-Dose CT Scan: The Key to Early Lung Cancer Detection As lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in Canada, screening programs across the country have introduced low-dose CT for ...

Background: Establishing a confident clinical diagnosis before an advanced stage of illness can be difficult in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) but unlike common causes of dementia, prion diseases ...

Instead of relying on dedicated CT scans of coronary arteries, which are rare and not always covered by insurance, to find potentially fatal heart disease, we seek to use AI to help screen ...

More than 1,000 CT scans have been reviewed amid concerns about the quality of checks by a consultant radiologist. Scotland’s national NHS scan reporting service said a routine audit found ...

From December 1, district hospitals included in this phase must apply for pre-authorisation on the Suvarna Arogya Suraksha Trust (SAST) portal for each patient and go ahead with the scan only ...

If you've suffered a serious injury or your doctor suspects cancer, a CT scan could be lifesaving. But since 1980, the number of those tests done each year has grown from fewer than 3 million to ...

CT scans are diagnostic tests that Medicare covers if they are medically necessary and a healthcare professional orders them. Original Medicare comprises Part A, covering inpatient hospital care ...

MEASURING visceral adipose tissue (VAT) volume on unenhanced chest CT scans could be a valuable prognostic tool for patients ...