Welcome and glad you found this site! I'd RUN FROM any medical place that said it "doesn't follow" the current guidelines on CT scans. At 58, it's what helped identify mine in March while it was still small enough to do surgery. In my case, when putting together questions for the local surgeon that our docs recommended I found that although he had a good reputation the hospitals around us were way down the charts. And, so we contacted Mayo and made an 8 hour drive only to pull into the hotel parking lot and see license plates from way further than we'd driven. The sense of calm that people have in a place where everyone has trust in the care (and by lunch when a doctor carrying his lunch stopped because we looked lost we knew it was more than even the medical care) just can't be overstated. Also, I'm not sure I understood @llwortman as far as triple the price. I didn't do a $ comparison, but at home they said after surgery I'd be in the hospital a week, with the first 2 nights in ICU. Well, at Mayo they said I'd be in the hospital 4 nights and I'd be up walking the 1st night- and I was! So, even if they charged more per day there were no ICU nights and less total days. I know that saved me, in sanity alone. Best wishes!