A very blunt interview with Anthony Zeitman is published in Lancet Oncology, blasting the Urorad business model.
[News] US urology clinics overprescribe prostate radiotherapy: "The US Government Accountability Office is investigating allegations that urologists are reaping hundreds of millions of dollars by overprescribing intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) for prostate cancer. Since 2002, Medicare, the federal health insurance programme for elderly patients, has paid generously for IMRT—up to US$40 000 per patient."
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