tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 8

COVERAGE: PET Scans Now Covered for Thyroid Cancer and Cardiac Diseases

If your clinic performs positron emission tomography scans, you could be in for a big boost in business soon. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced that it was expanding coverage of PET scans to include Medicare beneficiaries with thyroid cancer and potential cardiac diseases. And CMS plans a demonstration project to decide whether PET scans can help patients who doctors suspect have dementia. CMS said the new cardiovascular disease coverage includes conditions such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure and stroke. After reviewing the scientific evidence for PET scans using radiopharmacological ammonia N-13, CMS decided...

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