The Medical Necessity of X-Ray Digitization

X-rays are often performed on a patient's spine to determine if injury has caused disturbance to vertebral movement function to show indication of structural misalignment, or to identify soft tissue injury. Once a chief complaint has been identified and diagnosed and if x-rays have been taken, and medical necessity has been established PDi can then assist you in determining the degree to which any biomechanical impropriety has affected and/or may continue to affect the patient's health.

This procedure allows the treating doctor or advising attorney to have the best factual information on the biomechanical status of the patient. With this documentation the treating physician is assisted and therefore can best determine a treatment plan. After a patient has reached Maximum Medical Improvement (MMI) this documentation correlated with clinical findings demonstrates to attorneys, insurance adjusters and juries the extent of permanent injury. Progressive Diagnostic Imaging has incorporated the measurement technique published in the American Medical Association's latest edition of the Guide to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment to document the possible existence of a permanent impairment to the patient.

Doctors are required by legal precedent to use the best factual data upon which to arrive at a diagnosis. In a State Supreme Court case, Smith Vs. Yohe, the court decided that the treating doctor was negligent for not using the best factual data upon which to arrive at a diagnosis and thus treatment.

These reports are accurate, objective, quantitative, qualitative, repeatable, reliable, and often fundamental to the diagnosis, treatment and documentation of spinal injuries.