PET registry study authors ask Medicare to expand coverage

April 11, 2008 PET registry study authors ask Medicare to expand coverage James Brice -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Physician authors of a study summarizing 12 months of positive results from the National Oncologic PET Registry have asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to grant routine Medicare payment for numerous PET procedures tracked by the registry. The formal request, dated March 25, came a day after the results of the NOPR study were published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (Epub ahead of print Mar. 24). It asks CMS to grant routine coverage for FDG-PET evaluations for the diagnosis, staging, restaging, and evaluation of suspected recurrence of brain, cervical, ovarian, pancreatic, small cell lung, and testicular cancers.

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