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CMS backs away from rate cuts for PET in CY 2020 doc fee final

Nov. 6, 2019
By Mark McCarty
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has decided against a series of rate cuts for PET imaging in the Medicare physician fee schedule for 2020, a move lauded by physicians who were facing a rate cut of as much as 80% for nuclear medicine and molecular imaging procedures.
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