How will the Medicare proposed changes for payment of imaging services financially impact community oncologists?
A. I think oncologists will continue to order PET scans if they think the information from PET will play a key role in a particular patient’s management regardless of what the payment rates ultimately turn out to be by Medicare for 2007. If the oncologist is performing in-office PET imaging then the financial impact would be the potential reduction in the payments for the scans as discussed in the question below.
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- How will the Medicare proposed changes for payment of imaging services financially impact community oncologists?
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