Medicare Payment Cuts Could Decrease Bone Scan Access
Medicare payment cuts may prompt physicians to stop offering osteoporosis bone density scans, which could mean seniors would have less access to the screenings. The National Osteoporosis Foundation predicts that most physicians and smaller imaging centers will not be able to absorb the cut and will stop offering the scans.
- "Medicare Cuts Make Bone Scans To Avert Osteoporosis Fractures Costlier" (Lade, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, 3/17).