title: Point: Should lung cancer screening by chest CT scan be a covered benefit? Yes.
authors.affiliation: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Electronic address: david.yankelevitz@mountsinai.org.
authors.forename: David F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Yankelevitz
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage / Q000592:standards; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000191:economics / Q000401:mortality; D006278:Medicare / Q000191:economics; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States