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Physicians Seek Unrestricted Coverage of NaF-18 PET for Bone Metastasis
Physicians Seek Unrestricted Coverage of NaF-18 PET for Bone Metastasis
M Hogan
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2010 Jan 11
The Gray Sheet
Physicians Seek Unrestricted Coverage of NaF-18 PET for Bone Metastasis
The Gray Sheet. 2010 Jan 11, M Hogan
Recent shortages of an isotope commonly used in bone scans have prompted several professional societies to urge CMS to offer cancer patients broad access to sodium fluoride-18 positron emission tomography to identify bone metastasis. In comments to CMS, the Academy of Molecular Imaging urges the Medicare agency to issue a final national coverage determination allowing unrestricted use of sodium fluoride-18 PET (18F-NaF PET) to diagnose bone cancer in patients already treated for another form of...