Thousands of Tests at VA Hospitals May Have Been Cancelled Improperly - Hit & Run : Reason.com

Thousands of Tests at VA Hospitals May Have Been Cancelled Improperly - Hit & Run : Reason.com: 
"It's happened again and again—about 250,000 times since 2016, in fact. 
A patient arrives at a Veterans Affairs hospital for a CAT scan, an ultrasound, or some other diagnostic procedure. 
Then he or she discovers that the service had been cancelled. 
And no one is sure why.
Jeff Dettbarn, a radiology technologist at a VA hospital in Iowa City, started documenting such cancellations early last year. 
Since then, VA Inspector General Michael Missal has announced an audit for nine VA medical centers in Iowa, Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Colorado, Nevada, and California. 
...What happened? 
Lisa Bickford, an administrative staffer at Dettbarn's hospital, has testified that the hospital's chief radiologist instructed the employees to "clean" incomplete orders in an effort to address a growing backlog. 
Thousands of diagnostics orders were then cancelled over the span of a few weeks..."
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