FYI.. found this in the Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. Though it
mentions a particular company, it sounds like the approval is generic for
any PET scan provider...
Torie
Adac Laboratories' PET Scan To Be
Covered By Medicare
Dow Jones Newswires
MILPITAS, Calif. -- Adac Laboratories (ADAC) received
notification that the Health Care Financing Administration
expanded Medicare coverage to include positron emission
tomography, or PET, scans for the diagnosis and staging of
lung cancer, effective Thursday.
In a press release Friday, the developer of nuclear medicine
and radiation therapy planning systems said the coverage
includes scans produced by Adac's molecular coincidence
detection PET scans.
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