Does medicare pay for RT in the US? If medicare pays, it pretty well establishes the treatment as accepted.

Re: Side-effects of radiation
This is what i paid and was posted on cost of radiation
Re: Cost of RT
I went for 10 days and each treatment lasted about 5 minutes each at the most. And i had 2 GY each day per each hand or 20GY for both hands in 10 days. My insurance was a $2000 deductable that i paid and then they paid the rest. I do know my bill was alot less than some of the quotes people on the forum talked about. My bill in total with all the office visits and radiation was $4100 give or take. Which means my ins. paid $2,100. If you have no ins. the charge would be $6,100.

I'm very confused now. Because for one how do you know that medicare needs to have it pre-approved. How do you know if some areas will pay and some areas won't. Unless you have medicare. You have yet to say what ins. you have. And i decided to repost what i paid and even if you don't have ins. From what i see on cost from other places this is cheap. If i had no ins. i would still do it by credit card or pay payments. And then yo have to remember what ever ins. you have we drop the charge down after it gets filed. So you could do RT have doctor file it and then they will do allowable charge which is what you will be left with even if they don't pay for RT it will still get dropped. Please explain yourself do you really want to do this or not. It will be the best money you have ever spent.

I did not find my doctor on this list. I decided to call doctors in my area and found one that was 20 minutes away and was very reasonable in price. Maybe you should call around in for area or come for treatment with my doctor. Just a thought. Call radiologist oncology doctors.

callie:

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It is an interesting decision. I appreciate the ideas. It is/will be what most people will be faced with. It is a gamble to pay $5,000 to $13,000 out of pocket for RT (in my view) because a person doesn't know whether the Dupuytren's would go dormant as a natural occurrence. At over $5,000 (and most likely over $10,000) I guess I am willing to take my chances and go with surgery at 40 degrees contracture. I would do RT if insurance would cover it.

You said, "Call radiologist oncology doctors". That is who I was dealing with.

99.9% with treatment for RT and would never have surgery.