Redistribution of Health Care Costs after the Adoption of Positron Emission Tomography among Medicare Beneficiaries with Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer, 1998–2005
Dinan MA, Curtis LH, Carpenter WR, Biddle AK, Abernethy AP, Patz EF, Schulman KA, Weinberger M. Redistribution of Health Care Costs after the Adoption of Positron Emission Tomography among Medicare Beneficiaries with Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer, 1998–2005. Journal Of Thoracic Oncology 2014, 9: 512-518. PMID: 24736074, DOI: 10.1097/jto.0000000000000102.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCell lung cancerTotal health care costsHealth care costsPositron emission tomographyProportion of patientsRate of surgeryMedicare beneficiariesLung cancerCare costsEmission tomographySurgical resectionInpatient costsRetrospective cohort studyYear of diagnosisMain outcome measuresCohort studyTreatment patternsOutcome measuresRadiation therapyChemotherapyPatientsRadiotherapyStudy periodCancerMedicare approval