Maybe insurance companies should adapt the evidence-based philosophy. Most offices spend inordinate amounts of time duplicating radiographs to accompany predetermination-of-benefits forms.
Why? Is there any evidence to support that this waste of time helps patients or the insurance companies?
Why not eliminate radiographs altogether? It should not take very long for the companies to determine if we are compromising the integrity of the system. If, after working together with them, it is determined we have, then they can reinstitute the policy of sending radiographs.
Any dollars lost would surely be offset by money not spent on personnel to handle the radiographs and forms in the first place.
