LDCT Proponents Lobby Congress To Push for Medicare Coverage

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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have another six months to decide whether to cover low-dose computed tomography screening. Yet, proponents of screening seem unwilling to take the chance that Medicare coverage would be restrictive.

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