Outpatient Payments For PET Scans Slashed, Few Changes To CMS Proposals
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medicare payments for hospital outpatient positron emission tomography (PET) imaging will be cut significantly beginning in January 2007, despite modifications that dampen the impact of some of CMS' previous proposals
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