Finding Affordable Healthcare in 2019

How to Save Money without Sacrificing Your Care

Have you ever wondered why it’s simple to find the best deals, discounts, and quality in nearly everything except…your medical care? Patients are often faced with making difficult choices about their healthcare. At times, those choices may feel extremely limited and limiting.

The truth is,

front office of one of our medical imaging facilities

Anthem’s Changes Will Not Affect Medical Imaging in Our Community

Hear from CEO, Ed Swager

If you are a patient with Anthem medical insurance, you may have heard about changes to some of the requirements for medical imaging that will occur in 2018.  Anthem’s new rules will require that high end outpatient imaging, like MRIs and CTs, for their fully insured patients be provided in a non-hospital setting that does not bill as a hospital.   

technician explaining the open sided mri to a patient

How an Open Sided MRI Makes You Feel Comfortable

Claustrophobia (a fear of tight or enclosed spaces) is a very common concern for MRI patients, but an open sided MRI can help relieve some of this anxiety. Here are just a few ways to have a calm, comfortable experience with an open sided MRI.

An Open Sided MRI Gives You Room to Breathe

A high-field open MRI has open sides,

open mri machine

MRI vs. CT Scan: Which will your doctor prescribe?

When it comes to your doctor deciding on an MRI vs. CT Scan, it will be based on your medical condition and what your doctor needs to know in order to make a diagnosis or prescribe treatment.

What is an MRI?

An MRI is done by using a powerful magnetic field combined with radio waves that allow a computer to produce images of the inside of the body.

a doctor standing in front of a true open mri machine

What is an Open MRI Machine?

New technology has brought about a new MRI machine — the aptly named open MRI machine.

Meet the Open MRI Machine

When imaging requires precise patient positioning, the open MRI machine is ideal, allowing critical body parts to be scanned more easily and efficiently and with less discomfort to the patient.

woman receiving an ultrasound in a diagnostic imaging center

What is a Diagnostic Imaging Center?

Diagnostic imaging is the term used to describe all the different ways that physicians are able to look inside your body. A diagnostic imaging center has equipment and trained specialists to perform those tests. A doctor is then able to take the results from the diagnostic tests and draw conclusions from them.

Screening is used by healthy people to look for potential problems.

What is Diagnostic Imaging?

Diagnostic imaging describes a variety of non-invasive methods of looking inside the body to help determine the causes of an injury or an illness, and to confirm a diagnosis. It is also used to see how well your body is responding to a treatment for an illness or a fracture.

The most common types of diagnostic imaging include the following services.

open mri machine

Is it worth finding an Open MRI near me?

You might have heard of an open MRI and wondered, “is it worth finding an open MRI near me?” An Open MRI is worth considering for many reasons, but first, what exactly is an MRI?

What is an MRI?

MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) is a diagnostic test using radio waves and magnetic fields.

CT scan vs. MRI: What’s the difference?

Modern medicine has advanced well beyond x-rays. At Medical Imaging of Fredericksburg, we have ultrasounds, mammography, CT scans, several types of MRIs, PET scans, and PET-CT scans. The two most commonly used tests besides x-rays are CT scans and MRIs, both of which provide more detail than x-rays. If you need specialized imaging, it can be helpful to understand the operation and uses for a CT Scan vs.

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