THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE & MEDICAID SERVICES approved the American College of Radiology Lung Cancer Screening Registry as a method for providers to submit data, meet Medicare quality reporting requirements, and receive payment for CT lung cancer screening.
In the absence of the federal funding, cancer research will be leaning on private funders. But few private funders have the freedom to ask fundamental questions—questions whose answers may not have an immediate clinical impact but can dramatically advance scientific knowledge.
