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US here.

My doc ordered a PSMA PET before RP, insurance company "was going to reject" per Doc's staff.
I wrote them a "nice" email expressing my concern and requested an explanation as to why they were considering rejection. I was approved two days later.

PSAM PET detected no metastasis, RP done 4 weeks ago, PSA <0.1 last Friday.

Good luck, glad to see you were approved!

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Hi, very glad your advocating for yourself helped the psma pet scan be approved. And that it didn’t show mets of course! My husband’s urologist wasn’t going to order a psma pet scan as he felt it was primarily used for patients with rising PSA post initial PCA treatment. My husband discussed with him the benefits of discovering mets if present before initial treatment decision. Doc was still waffling sending in a requisition. Then my husband discussed that psma pet scan imaging at initial diagnosis would become standard of care once it became more available. That swayed the doctor and he agreed and requested the scan. Still had to wait for health Canada approval but they did approve. 🎉