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44yr PSA180 Gleason9 non-metastatic. Surgery or Treatment?
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@dinu Sorry to ask this. Do you use private insurance or statutory insurance? With PSMA scan, you may need to get pre-authorization with statutory insurance. If you use private insurance, be sure to check with them too. Each hospital that offers this PSMA scan seem to have different price. the newest tracer PSMA scan is at Saarland University Hospital in Homburg (near Ramstein). Some of the German patients got their PSMA scan there and discussed about it. My husband got PSMA scan at University Hospital Tuebingen on last Wednesday.
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So the first PSMA scan was covered by the German insurance (TK) after the urologist at the Uni Klinik Heidelberg requested it and my local urologist (not the one at the SLK Gesundbrunnen) wrote me an Überweisung. I got the PSMA scan at Uni Klinik Heidelberg as they were able to offer a appointment in a 2 week window versus the SLK in Heilbronn, where i had to wait 1.5 months for the next open spot.
The second PSMA scan I did again at Uni Klink Heidelberg. This time it was not covered by the insurance, and both Heilbronn and Heidelberg had the same cost (1600 Euros). I chose Heidelberg since they already had the data from my previous scan and they were able to include in the report a comparison between the first and second scan. Also, Heidelberg was able to give me the appointment a lot faster.
For this one I paid out of pocket. Since I am a Vet and the cancer is service related to my time in the Navy, I will be reimbursed by VA.
If I may ask, is your husband associated with the military? Is he a Vet as well?