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Originally Posted by
psychic
Can't think of a quicker way to validate Triage and get it into the primary Insurance market , can you?
KP have been on a bender to drop full Urological workups and this just slots right in there with their other studies. Sure, the Urologists will miss out, and I guess that is why it has been marketed / validated this way. Great stuff
Rubber stamp job what? :) Er, unless of course
you don't think it works... ?
http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org...mcp_pr88_1.pdf
Kaiser will do there user program and evaluate the results it gives.
Then they will be asking the question can we save money by using this test in the process of diagnosing the cause of these patients medical complaint, and if so at what point in the process do we use it (which will depend on the price).
[The problem with a test that tells you definitely/highly probably do not have cancer is that it does not tell you what you do have.]
So though it works (in the way that it works) the extent (= number of tests) to which it would be used is currently unknown.
So if/when PEB announce that Kaiser are adopting CxWhatever it may be wise to see if they actually give any likely numbers as opposed to the usual marketing spiel.
Best Wishes
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