Nuclear medicine means the use of internal radiopharmaceuticals for the diagnosis and treatment of patients.
Nuclear medicine means human use of radioactive
Nuclear medicine means a specialized practice of medicine whereby unsealed sources or radiopharmaceuticals are administered internally to human beings for purposes of diagnosis or treatment and also includes in-vitro applications of radioisotopes for diagnosis or research;
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After Deductible, Member pays 20% Plan Coinsurance After Deductible, Member pays 40% Plan Coinsurance Laboratory and Radiology Network Community Provider Nuclear medicine, radiology, ultrasound and laboratory services, including high end radiology imaging services such as CAT scan, MRI and PET which are subject to Preauthorization except when associated with Emergency services or inpatient services.
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Nuclear medicine means human use of radioactive material for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, not including radioisotope teletherapy;
Nuclear medicine means any kind of diagnostic and therapetutic proce- dure involving unsealed ionising radiation source;
Nuclear medicine means the application of an open radioactive source in the form of radioactive medicines which are administered to the patient for diagnostic purposes or therapy.
Nuclear medicine. The Beneficiary must pay for any medication, except medication administered as part of a treatment provided during hospital- isation. Oncology: Chemotherapy (including the chemo- therapy drugs and antineoplastic, anticancer, immunotherapy drugs used in intravenous or in- travesical chemotherapy in the day hospital Cancer Units; special forms of chemotherapy, such as Intraoperative Chemotherapy or Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy are not covered), Radiotherapy, including Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and Brachytherapy for the treatment of prostate, gynaecological, genital and breast can- cer. Stereotaxic or Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SRS) is included exclusively for tumours in the central nervous system (Stereotaxic Radiosurgery for other pathologies, Gamma Knife or Cyberknife Radiosurgery, Tomotherapy, Proton Therapy or Proton Beam Therapy, and other special forms of radiation therapy are not covered).
Nuclear medicine means the scientific and medical speciality that utilises nuclear properties of radioactive and stable nuclides to make diagnostic evaluation of the physiologic and/or anatomic conditions of the body and tho provide therapy with unsealed radioactive sources.
Nuclear medicine means all applications of radioactive material in diagnosis or treatment or in medical research except the use of sealed source in radiotherapy;
Nuclear medicine means a specialized practice of medicine comprising all applications of unsealed radioactive materials in medical diagnosis, therapy and research including in-vitro clinical and laboratory studies;