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%

Radiation Oncology 80

Radiation Oncology Nuclear Medicine Medicare Radiation 80

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).

Medicare 52

Medicare Nuclear Medicine Radiopharmaceuticals Imaging 52

AuntMinnie

MARCH 29, 2024

Over the years medical imaging has been considered a major contributor to increased healthcare spending, and has been subject to a variety of cost-cutting measures that have been mostly aimed at reducing Medicare and Medicaid costs. Nuclear medicine 40% Use rates by modality, 2010 to 2021 Modality 2010 2021 CT 10.2%

Healthcare 116

Healthcare Healthcare Nuclear Medicine Insurance 116

AuntMinnie

MARCH 29, 2024

With the passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (CAA 24) , we finally learned the rates physicians will be paid for Medicare services during the remainder of 2024. This makes the Medicare payment rate 1.77% lower than it was in 2023, rather than the 3.37% cut that was contained in the 2024 MPFS Final Rule.

Medicare 111

Medicare Radiology Mammogram X-ray 111

Imaging Technology

JULY 3, 2024

of all imaging studies for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries in 2022, with the remaining 27.9% of nuclear medicine (NM), and 33.9% of nuclear medicine (NM), and 33.9% christine.book Wed, 07/03/2024 - 12:53 July 3, 2024 — A new Harvey L. performed by other types of clinicians. of magnetic resonance (MR), 76.6%

Image Interpretation 111

Image Interpretation Radiologist Imaging Ultrasound 111

AuntMinnie

OCTOBER 2, 2024

tesla MRI AI body composition analysis Cardiac PET Cryo/thermoablation CT colonography Genicular artery embolization Hyperpolarized xenon-129 MRI PET/MRI Photon-counting CT Radiomics Theranostics Whole-body MRI screening Image of the Year 3D PET/MR image.

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine 144

Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine X-ray MRI Hospital 144

AuntMinnie

JANUARY 19, 2024

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), for example, did not cover amyloid PET scans outside of clinical trials for Medicare beneficiaries and only covered one scan per patient’s lifetime. Stakeholders will continue to work with the agency so that hospital outpatient facilities are adequately reimbursed in the future.

Disease 52

Disease Medicare Imaging PET Scan 52

AuntMinnie

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

The nonprofit commission was founded in 1951 and currently accredits some 19,000 organizations, including hospitals, physicians' offices, disease-specific care programs, stroke centers, and healthcare staffing services in the U.S. California will implement even stricter requirements beginning in January 2013.

Radiation 59

Radiation Medical Diagnostic Imaging Medicare 59

AuntMinnie

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This is slightly more of a cut than had been predicted in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) Proposed Rule that was issued in July. As we reported in our analysis of the Proposed Rule , this reduction in payments continues a trend that has seen the Medicare fee schedule reduced by nearly 10% over the past 10 years. to $350.40

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Medicare Interventional Radiology Nuclear Medicine Radiology 100