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Colon Cancer
CMS Denial of Coverage for Virtual Colonoscopy May Cost Lives
May 30th, 2009
Today's determination by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to not cover screening computed tomography colonography (CTC), also known as virtual colonoscopy, exams is not supported by the latest clinical evidence and may result in tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths each year from colorectal cancer, particularly among minority and underserved populations. CMS should reverse this determination and provide full coverage of CT colonography or Congress should pass legislation in this session to require Medicare coverage of the exam. Recently, the landmark multi-center American College of Radiology Imaging Network Trial, sponsored by the National Cancer...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-05-30)
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