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Editor's E-Note
This summer’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services communication on beta-amyloid PET scan coverage illustrates one challenge in integrating new technology into a health care environment facing great pressure to reduce or contain costs: When a device, treatment, or drug is FDA approved as “safe and effective” for an indication, does that mean its use should automatically be reimbursed? That’s the topic of this month’s E-News Exclusive.

— Jim Knaub, editor
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E-News Exclusive
Is Safe and Effective Still the Standard?
By Jim Knaub

In July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced its proposal to reimburse beta-amyloid PET imaging only under coverage with evidence development programs that enroll patients in clinical trials addressing the value of these scans for diagnosing Alzheimer’s or other neurological disorders. Florbetapir F18 injection (marketed by Eli Lilly under the trade name Amyvid) was approved earlier this year for imaging amyloid plaque density in patients being evaluated for Alzheimer’s disease.

While the comment period on the July proposal is closed, the final rule has not yet been published. If it reflects the proposal, an FDA-approved agent would not be covered under Medicare and Medicaid programs outside of clinical trials.

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Worth Repeating
“There needs to be a whole different mindset and culture change in radiology. I think radiologists—because of technological advances and also the fact that they actually fared pretty well financially in the past decade—perhaps developed a sense of entitlement and also got away from being in the mainstream of patient care teams.”

— Vijay M. Rao, MD, chair of the department of radiology at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, in an interview with Radiology Today
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