aThe Medical Services Plan (MSP) insures medically required services provided by physicians and supplementary health care practitioners, laboratory services and diagnostic procedures.
A list of outpatient services, including diagnostic procedures, specialist visits and laboratory tests was drawn up in 1996, and its original purpose was to define reimbursement fees of providers.
CHS is one of the four not-for-profit health maintenance organizations that provide hospital- and community-based medical services, including diagnostic procedures, medical treatments, and hospitalizations, for the Israeli population.
The functions formally assigned to primary-care teams include health promotion, health education and preventative services; diagnostic and therapeutic procedures; medical, nursing and community care; and rehabilitation and palliative care [ 19].
For both types of medical travellers (MT and OOCC), the top-ranked service sought abroad was diagnostic procedures which included CAT scans, MRIs and radiography.
Access to free public healthcare services is associated with payment for drugs given on site, diagnostic procedures, or medical services in up to 28%% of cases; 33 % of people report losing revenue when consulting their primary care clinic [ 24].
But administrators offset losses through other services, like breast surgery and diagnostic procedures.
Direct medical costs included all costs used in connection with psoriasis: hospitalisation, day hospital and/or outpatient services, specialist appointments, laboratory tests, diagnostic procedures, phototherapy and drugs.
Cost estimates for diagnostic procedures and services, out-patient ambulatory care, and in-patient surgical interventions were obtained from the Alberta Health and Wellness Health Costing in Alberta Annual 2006 [ 26].
The survey also provides statistics on the demographic characteristics of patients and services provided, including information on diagnostic procedures, patient management, planned future treatment, geographic location, racial composition and the extent of insurance coverage.
