Hospital Medicare 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). tim.hodson Thu, 11/07/2024 - 11:25 Nov.
Diagnostic Imaging
JUNE 28, 2024
While radiologists interpreted approximately 99 percent of all non-cardiac CT, MRI and nuclear medicine studies in hospital and emergency department settings for Medicare beneficiaries, new research shows significantly less radiologist review of cardiac imaging and office-based imaging.
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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
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% This reduction in payments continues a trend that has seen the Medicare fee schedule reduced by nearly 10% over the past 10 years. Radiology -3.8% -1.8% -2.8%
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. ASTRO also supports short-term relief established through the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act, which would eliminate the looming 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.
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