Medicare to continue coverage of heart scans
The US federal government will continue to cover the scanning procedure to detect heart disease, despite having misgivings over whether such coverage is justified or not. The payments would be left up to the local insurance carriers who have been covering these tests so far. Dr. Barry Straube, CMO for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said that more evidence is needed before the policy can be reversed.
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