Yes Torie, it is and thats why is seems so funny to have to push some
doctors into giving PET scans. If Medicare has approved it as a standard
then I would have to believe that it works...wouldn't you? Afterall our
government doesn't rush into these things. So maybe I am being a little
poopy, but I sure wonder about the doctors that won't use them, maybe they
need a little additional education... LOL! Carla
-----Original Message-----
From: victoria@best.com <victoria@best.com>
To: mol-cancer@lists.meds.com <mol-cancer@lists.meds.com>
Date: Sunday, January 04, 1998 9:43 PM
Subject: [MOL] PET scans now covered by Medicare
>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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