Medicare Payments for Scans Weighed
- Share via
Federal health officials are considering a controversial proposal that Medicare begin routinely paying for an expensive, high-tech body scan for a range of illnesses, including all the most common forms of cancer. Proponents say that positron emission tomography scanning would help diagnose illnesses more accurately. Opponents say PET’s usefulness, while clear for some conditions, should be proved disease by disease.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
California once bet big on offshore wind to help power its clean-energy future, but the Trump administration is now paying developers billions to walk away from their projects. As California’s remaining offshore-wind leases hang in the balance, the state is fighting back in court.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
