Siemens Pet/CT Scanner

Crozer-Keystone Health System is participating in Medicare’s new National Oncologic PET/CT Registry (NOPR).  The NOPR will significantly expand coverage of PET scans while conducting a study of PET’s effectiveness in currently non-covered cancers. 

Currently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) pays for PET/CT exams of nine cancers: head & neck, thyroid, esophageal, non small cell lung/solitary pulmonary nodule, breast, cervical, colorectal, lymphoma and melanoma. 

CMS wants to determine if they should pay for the staging or restaging and treatment monitoring for more cancers. To collect the data needed to determine which cancers should be covered; CNS will provide payment of PET exams for patients enrolled by their physicians at participating PET/CT imaging centers.

Among the cancers that patients can receive PET scans for as part of this registry are brain, squamous cell lung, hepatoma, pancreatic, adrenal, renal, ovarian, testicular, multiple myeloma and sarcoma. Crozer-Keystone conducts PET/CT scans at Delaware County Memorial Hospital, Springfield Hospital and the Crozer Medical Plaza at Brinton Lake.

For more information, speak to your physician or visit www.cancerpetregistry.org.