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Healthcare News: Study finds that radiation treatment costs are higher for patients with psychiatric comorbidities

A retrospective billing study conducted by researchers at Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, showed that pre-existing psychiatric comorbidities independently predicted elevated healthcare costs for a large population of patients treated with radiation at the institution.

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