Dear Fellow Healthcare Consumer: 

With 2010 in full swing, many of us are experiencing changes to our healthcare plans.  This year these changes seem to have one common theme -- we as healthcare consumers are being asked to pay more out of our own pockets and leap more hurdles, often with very little notice.  In some instances, it’s additional co-pay.  In others, it‘s a required higher percentage of co-insurance or even higher deductibles to hold down the cost of your healthcare.  For still others it’s a requirement that the testing be preauthorized, where none was required previously.  It’s exactly the same for our employees here at Diagnostic Imaging Services (“DIS”).