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Michigan Blue Cross Blue Shield will pay for digital mammograms.(Brief Article)
2002 OCT 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although Michigan's largest insurer said it's not convinced that digital mammograms offer superior breast cancer detection, it has begun paying for the procedure.
In July, the traditional Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan plan and its Blue Care Network health maintenance organization decided not to cover the procedure.
The move sparked protests from patients and health care professionals, who said digital mammograms improve chances of detecting cancers that show up as tiny dots on standard film screen mammograms.
Digital mammograms are electronic images of the breast. Doctors say the digital technology allows them to magnify images or add contrasts and decreases the number of times patients require a second mammogram.
Digital mammograms also can be sent electronically to other doctors when a patient wants a second opinion.
At a public hearing, radiologists said Blue Cross's research was out of date.
"Digital is going to do stuff that film screen can't," Dr. Ann Swinford, chief of breast imaging at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, said. "It gives you instantaneous ability to look at quality of film. You can see the skin line better and see subtle changes near the skin line."
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