Government Hospital Nuclear Medicine 
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 17, 2024
The delayed restart of a nuclear research reactor in the Netherlands is expected to cause supply shortages of the imaging agent technetium-99 m (Tc-99m) into November, according to reports. “We Tc-99m is then eluted from Mo-99 at radiopharmacies prior to being transported to hospitals. per day, a majority in nuclear cardiology. “As
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AuntMinnie
NOVEMBER 18, 2024
While academic medical center radiology departments are expanding significantly and hospitals are adapting to health system consolidation trends, demand for innovative imaging informatics remains strong among operations and physician teams. Another, a new hospital complex is underway at University of Utah Health.
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
MARCH 29, 2024
ESI spending directly translates to ESI premiums, the affordability of which for workers has to be supported by tax-exempt employer subsidies costing the federal government approximately $350 billion per year in lost federal tax revenue," the group wrote. Nuclear medicine 40% Use rates by modality, 2010 to 2021 Modality 2010 2021 CT 10.2%
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
JUNE 9, 2024
Jean-Luc Urbain, MD, PhD, has been named president-elect of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI). Urbain, a professor of radiology and nuclear medicine, has served in multiple roles within SNMMI, in addition to his most recent post as vice president-elect. Jean-Luc Urbain, MD, PhD. “As
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