Can PET Facilities Require Patients to Sign an Advance Beneficiary Notice (ABN)?
A PET facility can ask registry patients to sign an ABN. This decision is left up to each PET facility. However, an ABN should not be necessary. If patient eligibility is carefully checked before the patient is entered into the registry and before the PET scan is performed and if the facility works closely with its referring physicians to ensure that the required paperwork is submitted in a timely fashion, there will be no need to obtain ABNs.
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