Medicare to Cover Alzheimer Brain Scans

Elderly patients who show signs of Alzheimer’s disease will be able to get brain scans under the government’s Medicare program, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced.

Medicare will cover the positron emission tomography, or PET, scans for those patients who show signs of both Alzheimer’s and dementia but whose final diagnosis “remains uncertain,” as well as other patients who enroll in certain clinical trials, officials said.