Costa Rican Medical Care Offers PET/CT Scans
"Costa Rican Medical Care is proud to be working with CIMED to promote their PET scan services," said Tim Morales. "After visiting their new state of the art clinic in Heredia, Costa Rica and meeting with both Dr. Luis García Quirós and José Ruiz Oses, we are very impressed. But the cost savings is the most important element. These same tests in the U.S. can range between $3,000 and $6,000. People can now get these same tests done in Costa Rica at a fraction of the costs. Saving people money on health care costs is our goal. Many individuals or companies are self insured or have a Consumer Driven Health Plan (CDHP), and have to pay using their Health Savings Account (HSA) money. Using our provider CIMED for the PET scan can save them thousands of dollars."
Lake Geneva, WI (PRWEB) June 1, 2009 -- -Costa Rican Medical Care a medical tourism company specializing only in Costa Rican medical providers announces PET/CT Scan Services.
The Center for Medical Imaging CIMED has purchased and installed the first PET/CT scan machine in Central America and the Caribbean. Positron Emission Tomography, also called PET imaging or PET scan, is a type of diagnostic imaging nuclear medicine.
CIMED offers the most advanced technology to make sure your medical specialist has the most valuable information generated by their CPET Phillips PET SCAN (Positron Emission Tomography) and GE DXI/I CT (computed tomography) equipment, allowing for early detection of disease which leads to better decisions about treatment.
"Costa Rican Medical Care is proud to be working with CIMED to promote their PET scan services," said Tim Morales. "After visiting their new state of the art clinic in Heredia, Costa Rica and meeting with both Dr. Luis García Quirós and José Ruiz Oses, we are very impressed. But the cost savings is the most important element. These same tests in the U.S. can range between $3,000 and $6,000. People can now get these same tests done in Costa Rica at a fraction of the costs. Saving people money on health care costs is our goal. Many individuals or companies are self insured or have a Consumer Driven Health Plan (CDHP), and have to pay using their Health Savings Account (HSA) money. Using our provider CIMED for the PET scan can save them thousands of dollars."
For many diseases, nuclear medicine scans provide the most useful information needed to carry out a diagnosis or to determine appropriate treatment, without any risk to the patient because:
| | - Nuclear medicine is much less traumatic than surgery exploratory.
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| | - PET examinations are painless and in many cases, can reduce the need to undergo more invasive tests or procedures.
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| | - To identify changes in the body at the cellular level, diagnostic imaging with PET could detect the early onset of disease before becoming evident by other imaging studies such as CT or MRI, with a much lower level of radiation
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| | - PET will provide a tri-dimensional image of your body, showing all the metabolic changes it has at a cellular level
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Services offered by CIMED C.R. S.A.,
| | - PET SCAN: diagnostic imaging studies using PET system for functional Oncology, Neurology and Cardiology.
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| | - CT SCANNING: for anatomical studies within PET; plus General Radiology delivery of other pathologies.
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| | - 3D DOPPLER ULTRASOUND: for all related PET/CT studies and for General OB/GYN, Vascular, Radiological and Guided Biopsy procedures.
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| | - DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY: For all related PET/CT and Mammo studies, but as well as for General Screening and ROI detections in a Women Healthcare Program.
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Costa Rican Medical Care will be attending the PROCOMER Medical Tourism Conference in Costa Rica June 3rd and 4th and will be introducing this new service to many medical providers.
If you are an individual, company, medical tourism provider and would like more information about CIMED or Costa Rican Medical Care please visit their website at www.costaricanmedicalcare.com or call them at 262-348-1300. Costa Rican Medical Care is a division of HSA Clearing Corp.
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