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  2. Does Medicare Cover PET Scans? - AOL

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    Find out what parts of Medicare cover PET scans and how much it might cost you out of pocket. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

  3. CMS proposes broader coverage of PET scans for ... - AOL

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    (Reuters) - The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Monday proposed a broader coverage for a type of brain scan, used to identify a key Alzheimer's disease protein, that will ...

  4. US removes coverage curb on PET scans for Alzheimer's patients

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    A spokesman for Eli Lilly, which also makes an amyloid PET imaging agent, said the company looks forward to working with Medicare contractors "to ensure timely and uniform coverage implementation ...

  5. Florbetapir (18F) - Wikipedia

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    In January 2011, an FDA advisory committee unanimously recommended that Avid's PET scan technique be approved for use. The advisory committee included a qualification requiring Avid to develop clear guidelines establishing when the tests had spotted enough of the amyloid plaque to make a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. [15]

  6. Positron emission tomography - Wikipedia

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    Positron emission tomography (PET) [1] is a functional imaging technique that uses radioactive substances known as radiotracers to visualize and measure changes in metabolic processes, and in other physiological activities including blood flow, regional chemical composition, and absorption.

  7. PET-CT - Wikipedia

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    Positron emission tomography–computed tomography (better known as PET-CT or PET/CT) is a nuclear medicine technique which combines, in a single gantry, a positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and an x-ray computed tomography (CT) scanner, to acquire sequential images from both devices in the same session, which are combined into a single superposed (co-registered) image.

  8. Medicare will remove limits on PET scans used with new ... - AOL

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    Medicare will remove limits on covering PET scans used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, allowing broader access to new treatments on the U.S. market. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

  9. Octreotide scan - Wikipedia

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    An octreotide scan is a type of SPECT scintigraphy used to find carcinoid, pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors, and to localize sarcoidosis. It is also called somatostatin receptor scintigraphy (SRS). Octreotide , a drug similar to somatostatin , is radiolabeled with indium-111 , [ 1 ] and is injected into a vein and travels through the bloodstream.

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