Is the cost of a petctomy reimbursed by Medicare?

No.

Currently in our country, petct has not been included in the health insurance link, so most of them can not be reimbursed, but there are many hospitals can be reimbursed for the cost of the injection, we believe that in the near future, as our demand for petct continues to increase, petct will also be added to the ranks of the health insurance.

Expanded information:

Currently, there are not many hospitals with PETCT examinations, and the Naval General Hospital in Beijing is equipped with PETCT examination equipment and related qualifications. The cost of a full body PETCT examination is about twelve thousand dollars. If you want to know more about PETCT examination information you can click on the online consultation to communicate.

How often PET-CT checkups should be done depends on the purpose of the checkup, if it is a health checkup or post-surgery review for cancer patients, it is usually enough to do it once a year, and once a year PET-CT checkups can be easily done for early detection of cancers, and can also play a certain role in preventing cancers.

In addition, if the cancer patients do PET-CT examination, should be carried out under the guidance of the doctor, cancer patients can be carried out one month after surgery PET-CT examination, according to the needs of the patient's treatment, the doctor will designate the time to do PET-CT examination.

The price of PET-CT examination seems relatively expensive, and more and more examinees are concerned about the medical insurance of PET-CT examination.The cost of PET-CT examination is not included in the scope of medical insurance reimbursement at present, but don't worry, PET-CT examination is not all out-of-pocket expenses.

Some hospitals bill the cost of a PET-CT exam as two bills, the cost of the PET-CT exam and the cost of the contrast agent; a contrast agent is injected before the PET-CT exam, and the cost of this contrast agent is reimbursable.

Reference:

Baidu Encyclopedia - PET-CT