MedCAC for PET
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee will meet Aug. 20 in Baltimore to give CMS feedback on its open national coverage analysis of positron emission tomography scans. The agency is considering removing the data collection requirements it put in place in 2005 as conditions of coverage for PET scans for diagnosis, staging and restaging of brain, ovarian, prostate and certain other cancers (1"The Gray Sheet" June 2, 2008, p. 11). The scheduled MedCAC meeting pushes CMS' deadline for a proposed decision back two months to Jan. 10, 2009