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Screening CT colonography reimbursement: triumphs and navigating a path forward

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  1. Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, 94143, USA

    Judy Yee

  2. San Francisco VA Health Care System, 4150 Clement Street, San Francisco, CA, 94121, USA

    Judy Yee

  3. American College of Radiology, Reston, USA

    Anita McGlothlin & Kathryn J. Keysor

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Yee, J., McGlothlin, A. & Keysor, K.J. Screening CT colonography reimbursement: triumphs and navigating a path forward. Abdom Radiol 42, 86–89 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00261-016-0974-6

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