PET Whole Body

• Cancer, New Diagnsis
• Cancer, Treatment Followup
• Cancer, Treatement Progress Monitoring

PET Indications:

• PLEASE SPECIFY ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:
  • Cancer, Initial Diagnosis and Staging
  • Cancer, Diagnosis, Determine Optimal Anatomic Location for invasive procedure
  • Cancer, Restaging, After completion of treatment course (3 month minimum unless you clarify why you need it sooner such as symptom changes, changing meds due to complications)
  • Further characterization of indeterminate lesions on CT or MR
• PETFoundations.com:
  • Reimbursement Guide PDF
• Cancer PET Registry.ORG
• List of Approved Cancer Indications
  • Lists the covered cancers and those which you need to have registered with the PET registry to get coverage for by Medicare.
• PET Foundations (Cardinal Health) - This company makes FDG
• Washington Imaging Services - List of Medicare changes and coverage for CT/PET in cancer

PET Indications NOT ACCEPTABLE:

• "cancer" alone