Current law mandates patients with metastatic breast cancer must wait five months before earning any SSDI benefits.
Researchers warn that radiation from the machines can increase cancer risk. New Medicare rules aim to make these imaging ...
CMS approves ADLT status for Guardant Health's Shield test, setting Medicare reimbursement at $1,495. The analyst sees a ...
Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH) traded higher in the morning hours on Tuesday after the company announced that the U.S. Centers ...
A physician from Slidell, La., was charged with conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud in connection with an alleged scheme to bill Medicare for unnecessary cancer genetic tests.
Unnecessarily high radiation doses in scans have been linked to cancers. Under new federal rules, doctors and imaging centers ...
Medicare covers prescribed chemotherapy drugs. How and where a person receives chemotherapy helps determine which Medicare part provides the coverage. When a person receives a cancer diagnosis ...
Hospitals and imaging centers are now required to track and report radiation exposure from CT scans under new Medicar ...
CT scans ‘routinely’ deliver up to three times the radiation they should, which can lead to 36,000 cases of cancer a year.
Colorectal cancer care groups, minority healthcare advocates and doctors have long held that virtual colonoscopy, or CT ...
Advocates argue that out-of-pocket costs for additional imaging, such as MRIs or diagnostic mammograms, deter patients from seeking necessary follow-up exams.