90 CANCER GROUPS AND CANCER CENTERS, in a sign-on letter, urged the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services to rescind proposed reimbursement cuts for lung cancer screening in its proposed rule on the 2017 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System. The proposal lowers the reimbursement for low-dose CT lung cancer screenings by 44 percent, from $112.49...
Collage art of mammograms of dense breastsIllustrator: Cyrus FineganWhile breast cancer experts are anything but clear on what the words “dense breasts” signify in the clinic, or for that matter, in the English language, FDA appears to be less perplexed.
