Becker's Healthcare May 20, 2019
Walmart is recommending its employees use one of 800 imaging centers found to provide more accurate diagnoses, according to Kaiser Health News.
The move came after Walmart officials discovered that about half of the company’s workers who underwent back surgery in the past few years actually didn’t need those operations due to misdiagnosis. A large issue was employees’ diagnostic imaging like CT scans and MRIs had high error rates, Lisa Woods, senior director of benefits design for Walmart, told Kaiser Health News.
Since March, Walmart has begun steering workers to specific imaging providers based on diagnostic accuracy, not price, to curb misdiagnoses. Employer health experts...
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