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Prepare for PET Changes That Could Be Coming Down the Pike

Published on Tue Feb 05, 2013

National Medicare may offer more leeway for local coverage. You may see your PET local coverage determination getting an update in the near future. CMS is considering allowing local MACs to determine coverage within their jurisdictions for oncologic PET imaging using pharmaceuticals, assuming there’s no national policy to override the local one. In a proposed decision memo, dated Dec. 13, [...]
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