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Local Medicare Contractors Propose Coverage For Novocure’s Optune

 
• By Reed Miller

The Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractors (DME MACs) have issued a proposed local coverage determination that provides coverage of Novocure’s Optune Tumor Treating Fields device for treating newly diagnosed glioblastoma at certain cancer centers.

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The Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractors (DME MACs) are recommending local Medicare coverage of Novocure’s Optune Tumor Treating Fields device for treating newly diagnosed glioblastomas, an aggressive type of brain cancer.

Tumor Treating Fields are tuned electric fields created by the Optune device to disrupt solid tumor cells’ ability to divide...

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