More hospitals or more vitamins?
Ontario Canada TroyMedia Feb 2017
“Apparently, Ontario would rather spend $8,700 to hospitalize a citizen [ for 5 days of flu] than $40 to test him for vitamin insufficiency”
A few years ago most (all?) Canadian provinces decided to not pay for Vitamin D testing
Restriction on Vitamin D Testing have spread to several other countries.
See also VitaminDWiki
- VA showed increased vitamin D associated with lower health costs - Lancet May 2012
- How Alberta Canada restricts Vitamin D testing – May 2016
- France restricts payments for Vitamin D tests – Dec 2015
- Medicare now pays for just one vitamin D test , but 20 CT scans for smokers – Feb 2015
- Vitamin D testing in Australia before they shut it down – 42 percent retested – 2013
- 80 X increase in Vitamin D testing in Australia in a decade - June 2013
- Warning – Medicare will pay for just 1 vitamin D test PER LIFETIME (if not related to a few diseases)
- 6th Canadian province may stop paying for vitamin D testing – Sept 2010
17 reasons why are doctors reluctant to accept vitamin D
- Reason #10 "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is dependent upon his not understanding it
- Likewise, hospitals, drug companies, etc. would lose a lot of business
Other
- Cost savings with Vitamin D category listing has
99 items along with related searches - Dr. who got patients to vitamin D level of 80 ng Doctor visits dropped from 4 per year to 1 per year
- Influenza prevented by 40 ng levels or treated with vitamin D hammer (50,000 IU) – June 2015
More hospitals or more Vitamin D – your choice6333 visitors, last modified 01 Mar, 2017, This page is in the following categories (# of items in each category)