Greetings! Is PET-CT scan for Cancer covered in National Health Insurance? I will not be taking the whole Cancer Screening, just PET-CT. I’ve had Lymphoma 10 years ago and I’m due for a PET-CT scan check this year. Thank you.
If your doctor is scheduling it, it should be covered. If it’s not, they would go out of their way to indicate it isn’t. Do you speak Japanese or have someone who can speak Japanese with you when you go to the doctor?
If you have a good job, you might want to take a look at any potential support your employer might give you. I work at a private school and the private school insurance group gave me a card that lets me pay only up to a certain amount each month. I think anything after 80,000 yen I don’t pay for. Even then, after a month’s wait or so, I still get some reimbursement from that 80,000 yen, usually around 60,000 yen or so.
Hope the scan goes well.
Also, hold on to the receipt (even if covered) as you can deduct medical expenses from your taxes at the end of the year.
I’ve had a few PETs done, IIRC cost about ¥26,000-28,000 each time–and they were careful to explain that cost as a part of deciding to do it and then making the appointments for it.
Had a PET done a couple years ago to try to diagnose a suspected kidney stone (which it ended up not being, it was meralgia parasthetica). Was covered.
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If your doctor is scheduling it, it should be covered. If it’s not, they would go out of their way to indicate it isn’t. Do you speak Japanese or have someone who can speak Japanese with you when you go to the doctor?
If you have a good job, you might want to take a look at any potential support your employer might give you. I work at a private school and the private school insurance group gave me a card that lets me pay only up to a certain amount each month. I think anything after 80,000 yen I don’t pay for. Even then, after a month’s wait or so, I still get some reimbursement from that 80,000 yen, usually around 60,000 yen or so.
Hope the scan goes well.
Also, hold on to the receipt (even if covered) as you can deduct medical expenses from your taxes at the end of the year.
I’ve had a few PETs done, IIRC cost about ¥26,000-28,000 each time–and they were careful to explain that cost as a part of deciding to do it and then making the appointments for it.
Had a PET done a couple years ago to try to diagnose a suspected kidney stone (which it ended up not being, it was meralgia parasthetica). Was covered.