Christy Carlson Romano is fighting her insurance to cover a cancer scan. Here's what to do if you face the same fight.

High-deductible plan and insurance denied your scan? Here’s what Romano’s story reveals about your 2026 appeal rights.

Insurance denied your test or scan? The 2026 rules give you more tools to fight back than ever. Here’s the exact playbook to ...

A PET scan — or positron emission tomography scan — is an imaging tool that lets doctors see how well your tissues and organs are working. It’s often used to diagnose and stage various cancers.

PET scans examine the tissues of the body at a cellular level. Because these tests can measure metabolic activity, such as oxygen use, blood flow and the rate at which specific areas of the body are ...

A surge in PET scan insurance denials, affecting about a third of requests, is prompting renewed attention as new CMS rules shorten prior authorization timelines and increase transparency. Patients ...

Karin Rexroad peeks through the bore of the PET-CT scanner at LMH Health. Positron emission tomography, or PET, scans have long been used to diagnose cancer and determine how far it has progressed.

Actress Christy Carlson Romano’s struggle to get insurance approval for a PET scan highlights a widespread issue: high denial rates for advanced imaging. A new federal CMS rule effective January 1, ...

PET scans may serve as both a diagnostic and prognostic tool in giant cell arteritis (GCA), according to a new study. In over 100 patients with GCA who underwent 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET ...

PET scans were helpful in determining which patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer may be able to skip chemotherapy. Treating patients with HER2-positive early breast cancer based on positron ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Researchers analyzed more than 10,000 PET scans of patients from the IDEAS study. Measurement of Centiloids from ...