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Medicare to cover PDT for select AMD patients

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Washington, DC-The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has begun to cover ocular photodynamic therapy (PDT) with verteporfin to treat select patients with subfoveal occult, but no classic choroidal neovascularization (CNV) associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and subfoveal minimally classic CNV.

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