AuntMinnie

MARCH 26, 2025

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) to update the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (HOPPS) in 2025 by unbundling radiopharmaceuticals. The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) presented its 2025 Legislative Champion Award to Representatives Neal Dunn, MD, and Ami Bera, MD.

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AuntMinnie

MARCH 27, 2025

GE HealthCare's launch coincides with the receipt of pass-through status by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), effectiveApril 1st. The company also secured a drug-specific Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System billing code and coverage for traditional Medicare beneficiaries who may be recommended for the injection.

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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. ASTRO also supports short-term relief established through the Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act, which would eliminate the looming 2.8%

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AuntMinnie

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a national payment rate for RefleXion Medical's Scintix biology-guided radiotherapy system. These are created by injecting the patient with a radiopharmaceutical to deliver a radiation dose that targets the cancer itself.

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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.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 12, 2024

a therapeutic oncology company, announced that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a national payment rate for RefleXion’s SCINTIX biology-guided radiotherapy using CMS’ New Technology (NT) Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) pathway. 1, 2024, to describe SCINTIX therapy.

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 30, 2025

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced key changes to reimbursement that make advanced imaging more accessible, lifting its one-scan-per-patient restriction in 2023 and unbundling payment for high-cost diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals in 2024. Since then, the U.S.

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Imaging Technology

JULY 20, 2023

Keole is a radiation oncologist at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona and also sees patients at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. He previously served on the ASTRO Board as head of the Government Relations Council, helping lead ASTRO’s work with Congress and other policymakers on prior authorization and Medicare payment reform. “I

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Imaging Technology

JANUARY 14, 2025

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced key changes to reimbursement that make advanced imaging more accessible, lifting its one-scan-per-patient restriction in 2023 and unbundling payment for high-cost diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals in 2024. Since then, the U.S.

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