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Today I found out details about how one of my clients has been reimbursed for thermography imaging “3 or 4 times but not the full amount - varying amounts each time” after going through the UBCF’s Questionnaire & Application process. It’s 2 Steps: Questionnaire lets you know if you qualify to apply. Here is a list of the requirements (not on the list is that one must make a donation of $5 and my client says that solicitations for donations will arrive post grant receipt, so buyer beware.
This short news brief published by Natural Awakenings written in 2022 gives several characteristics of fast-food vs. quality thermography although I omitted perhaps the most critical difference due to space limitations: a numerical TH (thermo-biological) Score (TH1-TH5) for each breast is given in quality reports, not in fast-food reports. While a TH score doesn’t guarantee quality, it drastically improves odds.
As an IACT certified thermographic technician, I attend meetings online with Dr. Amalu and at a recent one, the subject of what it takes to become proficient at reading images came up because a technician mentioned a course advertised of only 3 days to learn to read images!
That sparked a followup note from Dr. Amalu describing the glory days of insurance covering thermography and courses in federally funded universities that were teaching doctors to read images. Enjoy his note below! (IACT is the abbreviation for International Academy of Clinical Thermographers):
No, the Swiss did not ban mammography, this is an exaggerated rumor floating around the internet, so resist the temptation to forward the memes about it; however, the Swiss did suspend their mammography screening program in 2014 and began phasing it out due to analysis of cancer rates before and after implementing screening pointing to lots of overdiagnosis (treating healthy women for "cancers" that were not destined to progress).