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Anyone else have Medicare Advantage

Prostate Cancer | Last Active: Mar 6 9:03am | Replies (28)

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@paulcalif

Fantastic comment, thanks for the good advice and best of luck to you in your proceedure. I'm interested in knowing if any of the MRIdian machines are still online. I'm waiting for a call back from Hoag hospital her in So. Cal. I'm thinking that since Viewray is no longer in business that maybe I'll of their equipment is off line now. I know UCLA's is down

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I understand that Lee Health in Ft. Myers (near me) is also down, on a new Mridian machine that just went online last year. They're trying to hire engineers and other experts to service the machine directly and get it working again. They told me they were probably a year out.

I know Elekta has a MRI guided machine similar to the ViewRay Mridian, the Elekta Unity, but somewhat limited to locations here in the states. I know the University of Florida in Jacksonville just brought one of these machines online: https://ufhealth.org/news/2022/uf-health-unveils-imaging-machine-one-42-world-tackle-difficult-cancers. So I suppose I could choose protons or photons at UF Health in Jacksonville with my traditional Medicare, but I'm going with Protons for less extraneous radiation exposure. Moffitt in Tampa is building a proton treatment center, but it won't be online until 2026.

The thing is, with traditional Medicare, you can just call the treatment center you are interested in and inquire if they accept your insurance and go from there.