Each PET scan costs Medicare between about $700 and $1,200, and those being treated with the new drugs will need ongoing tests. A Medicare beneficiary’s cost for each test is about $300.

Learn how Medicare’s coverage of PET scans for Alzheimer’s is changing in 2024 and what it means for diagnosis and treatment, with insights from Forbes Advisor.

Medicare will remove limits on covering PET scans used to help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, allowing broader access to new treatments on the U.S. market. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

In a statement applauding the CMS decision, Maria C. Carrillo, PhD, chief science officer for the Alzheimer's Association, said that broader access to amyloid PET scans will allow for "earlier and ...

U.S. health officials on Friday lifted curbs on reimbursement of a non-invasive imaging test called amyloid PET used to diagnose Alzheimer's, ending a once-per-lifetime limitation that clears the ...

"Amyloid PET scans are a proven tool and can be an important part of Alzheimer's diagnosis and treatment," Maria Carrillo, chief science officer of the Alzheimer's Association, said in a statement.

Over five years and more than 11,000 scans, IDEAS researchers found that amyloid PET dramatically affects diagnosis, changing two-thirds of treatment plans (Aug 2017 conference news; Nov 2018 ...

To investigate, Shekhtman and colleagues surveyed 199 at-risk, but cognitively normal, adults before and 6 months after they underwent amyloid PET scans to determine amyloid beta status. Most were ...

Key takeaways: Researchers analyzed more than 10,000 PET scans of patients from the IDEAS study. Measurement of Centiloids from analysis and visual scans had high concordance. For clinicians who ...