In addition to signing the petition for CMS, please also write to your member of the House of Representatives and Senators to ask them to address this horrifying situation with legislation that requires CMS to reimburse for this life saving treatment.
Robert Atcher
President-elect, Society of Nuclear Medicine
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The American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the main organization of cancer doctors, agrees.
The response of CMS officials to all of this is puzzling. The spokesman for CMS, Jeff Nelligan, tried to get the bean counters there to answer my questions. But the official response is just a repetition of the claim that RIT is "diagnostic."
For an agency that spends more than a billion dollars a day, this may just be business as usual. Or perhaps public pressure can force powerful bureaucrats to feel ashamed of pulling the plug on their fellow Americans, desperately ill with cancer.
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