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CT Lung Cancer Screening Exam Eligibility
CT Lung Cancer Screening Exam Eligibility
Exam Eligibility USPSTF 2021 Guidelines:
- Individuals between the ages of 50 and 80 years
- Individuals who are currently smoking or have quit within the past 15 years. Screening should be discontinued once the individual has not smoked for 15 years.
- History of at least 20 "pack years" of smoking. (A pack year equals the number of packs smoked per day times the number of years the patient smoked; two packs a day for 10 years equals 20 pack years.)
Exam Eligibility Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) - Covered effective February 10, 2022
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposes that the evidence is sufficient to add a lung cancer screening counseling and shared decision making visit, and for appropriate beneficiaries, screening for lung cancer with low dose computed tomography (LDCT), once per year, as an additional preventive service benefit under the Medicare program only if all of the following criteria are met:
- USPSTF 2021 Eligibility Guidelines
- CMS age eligibility is between the ages of 50 and 77 years
Exclusion criteria for the study
- Pneumonia or acute respiratory infection treated with antibiotics in the 12 weeks prior to scheduled low dose CT
- CT Scan of the Thorax within the past 1 year
- Unexplained weight loss of more than 15 lbs in the 12 months prior to screening exam