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Criteria recently proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for the coverage of lung cancer screening using low-dose computed tomography may not be the most efficient way to screen...
Medicare patients who are at high risk for lung cancer would be able to get screening using low-dose computed tomography under a proposed national coverage decision announced Nov. 10.
“The evidence...