The mean PSA level ranged from 5.7 to 11.0 ng/ml. Most studies involved a patient group with PSA < 10 ng/ml (n = 38). A 3-Tesla scanner was used in 77% of studies (n = 33). The most commonly used MRI-GB technique was FUS-TB (n = 31), followed by...
Clinicians are behind this growth, ordering an average of 16 tests but as many as 86 per Medicare patient annually [4]. All of this comes at a cost, with growing concerns from payers about what to cover and anxiety from producers on how to secure reimbursement. Despite this tension, there...
In addition, the annual costs of BPH diagnostic and treatment modalities were reviewed from the database for both diagnostic and therapeutic BPH-related procedures. All costs were standardized based on Medicare Relative Value Units and other pricing methods, adjusting for inflation. Finally, incidental...