Bending To Overwhelming Feedback, CMS Softens Stance On PET For Solid Tumors
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
In a final decision memo released June 11, the Medicare agency provides national coverage for three post-cancer-treatment PET scans. The original coverage proposal would have allowed only one.
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