As it stands now, the insurance companies rule when the doctors order.
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Doctors order excessive diagnostic tests, partially to avoid malpractice liability.
Doctors order unnecessary tests just to protect themselves, he said.
It is because of that fear that doctors order unnecessary tests and procedures in an attempt to cover themselves in case of lawsuits, and it is the reason health care professionals think twice about sharing information in writing or even verbally, lest it be used against them.
Mobile medical apps for smart phones and iPads are already allowing doctors to order lab tests and meds and residents are using them to look up drug interactions.
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Paradoxically, the authors say, the consumer movement in health care encourages patients to request "the latest and greatest" tests and screening even when they aren't medically necessary, further encouraging doctors to order more rather than focus on the relationship with the patient.
Information can help eliminate costly hospital stays and free doctors for higher-order tasks such as surgeries.
Doctors in urology groups that profit from tests for prostate cancer order more of them than doctors who send samples to independent laboratories, according to a study Monday in the journal Health Affairs.
But that's tolerable cruelty in order to allow doctors, patients and investors to digest this story now, as it develops, and not after the fact.
Vivus will at first offer the pill only through mail order, so doctors can't sell it directly, said Dr. Barbara Troupin, Vivus' vice president of scientific communications and risk management.
What Steve probably did next, in the weeks between January and March, was what most wealthy Americans with failing livers do in the same situation: travel around the US and pay big fees to be examined by various doctors at various hospitals in order to get on as many waiting lists as possible.
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For example, doctors must use electronic prescriptions in order to take care of Medicaid patients but are not reimbursed for their expense.
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In New York, doctors have to requisition special paper in order to file their claims.
Doctors, hospitals and clinics have to order the H1N1 vaccine through their state's health department.
In order to stay in contact with doctors, Lilly needs to keep marketing its Prozac to them.
Increasingly, patients checking in to see doctors are being asked to sign a gag order, promising never to say anything negative about their physician online or elsewhere.
They sold their house in order to pay bills for therapy and doctors that total in the hundreds of thousand of dollars.
This, Fernandopulle explained, would force doctors on staff to focus on service, in order to retain their patients and the fees they would bring.
But she thinks one of Amgen's biggest problems will be making sure doctors have the drug in their offices, in order to give it to their patients.
They claim that drug companies and even doctors are pathologising normally-naughty childhood behaviour in order to create a market for drugs or to deal painlessly with a potentially time-consuming condition.
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Doctors in Maine, for example, can't order a quarantine without approval from the governor or the courts.
Health-care costs ultimately arise from the accumulation of individual decisions doctors make about which services and treatments to write an order for.
They said he also instructed his non-physician employees to order and perform tests for patients of other doctors working at his offices, even though he had not examined those patients and the other doctors had not ordered them.
The main reason people fail to become donors, says Mone, is that they fear that ER doctors or paramedics will not try to save them, in order to recover their organs for transplant.
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Gordon Brown announced the redundancies in March 2004 as part of wider cuts across the civil service in order to channel cash into frontline services, such a doctors and nurses.
"The doctors are following up with him to optimize his anticoagulation therapy, in order to minimize the risk of further transient ischemic attacks, " the statement said.
In order to help insure that there are a sufficient number of doctors available, Medicare will begin paying higher sums to incentivize the physicians to remain in the Medicare program.
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Doctors in Baghdad said Ali has beaten back the threat of infection but in order to survive he needed treatment at a better-equipped hospital.
In order to prevent errors, more money must be spent to keep doctors, nurses and patients up to date on the ballooning number of available medicines.
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