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Medicare PET coverage. (Policy Practice).
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services now will cover positron emission tomography for women diagnosed with breast cancer. Medicare will now cover PET as an adjunct to standard imaging modalities for staging patients with distant metastasis, restaging patients with locoregional recurrence of metastasis, and monitoring response to treatment in women with locally advanced ...
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