Excerpt: These new diagnostic tools have become as basic to medicine as the stethoscope and sphygmomanometer. Plans can only hope to mitigate some of the costs by wringing waste out of the system through controls. They do not have help from doctors, who say new measures to reduce imaging costs make it harder for them to take the best care of patients. 'We are increasing technology at breakneck speed,' Haralson, the orthopedist says.  MORE >>