You feel perfectly fine, but that nagging thought about your family's history with heart disease just won't go away. You decide to be proactive and look into a preventative heart scan, a simple test that could give you crucial insight. But then you hit the wall of modern healthcare: the next available appointment with your primary care physician is six weeks out. 

That’s just to discuss getting a referral, which could then get bogged down in insurance pre-authorizations. The impulse to take control of your health is met with a system designed for delays. Filling that gap is precisely why Diagnostic Orders Direct was created.

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