Senators push Medicare for a PET scan pay bump
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Exclusive: Senators ask Medicare for a pay bump for drugs used with PET scans
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is leading a bipartisan group of senators to ask Medicare officials to bump payment for drugs paired with diagnostic scans that are used for, among other things, assessing patients’ eligibility for a new class of Alzheimer’s drugs, my co-author Rachel Cohrs Zhang reports.
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