Radiation Therapy Targeted For More Medicare Cuts
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
CMS says the large, protective vaults constructed to house the linear accelerators necessary for radiation therapy represent a building cost, not a medical equipment cost, and, thus, overall reimbursement for the treatments should be reduced.
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