2025 Hospital Nuclear Medicine 
Imaging Technology
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
1, 2024 — The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have announced a significant adjustment to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS). We commend CMS for this significant move to improve access to life-saving nuclear medicine scans, ensuring that patients across the country can receive the best possible care.”
AuntMinnie
JULY 26, 2024
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued its proposal for payments in 2025 under the Physician Fee Schedule (PFS), and it contains an across-the-board 2.8% The Conversion Factor (CF) in the 2025 Proposed Rule is $32.3562, compared with the $33.2875 currently in use. Nuclear Medicine -3.8% -1.8% -2.8%
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AuntMinnie
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) final rules. Although the 2025 MPFS calls for an overall 2.9% This means that the finalized 2025 MPFS conversion factor is $32.35, a decrease of 2.8%
AuntMinnie
JULY 10, 2024
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new reimbursement plan July 10 for diagnostic PET scans that would provide separate payments for radiopharmaceuticals, as well as an extra payment for hospitals when they use domestically produced technetium-99m (Tc-99m).
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 10, 2024
initiative to secure domestic supplies of molybdenum-99, according to an official who spoke at a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) meeting October 9 in Arlington, VA. Mo-99’s daughter decay chain isotope is technetium-99m (Tc-99m), which is used in an estimated 40,000 diagnostic nuclear medicine exams each day.
AuntMinnie
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The company noted the following achievements from hospital systems in the U.S. Champalimaud Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal): 24% emissions reduction per exam in its radiology and nuclear medicine department, with a goal to cut the carbon footprint of its diagnostic and interventional imaging departments by half by 2028.
AuntMinnie
JULY 10, 2024
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed a new reimbursement plan July 10 for diagnostic PET scans that would provide separate payments for radiopharmaceuticals, as well as an extra payment for hospitals when they use domestically produced technetium-99m (Tc-99m).
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