AuntMinnie
APRIL 15, 2024
Total nuclear medicine patient study volumes decreased by 5.7% decrease in hospital-based studies and a 2.5% decrease in total procedures each year, with hospital-based procedures declining by 5.5% and non-hospital procedures increasing by 1.2%. and non-hospital procedures increasing by 1.2%. Of these, 5.8
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.”
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AuntMinnie
MARCH 26, 2025
A select group of eight radionuclides holds hope for an emerging cancer treatment in nuclear medicine called targeted alpha therapy (TAT). Ultimately, most hospitals conducting trials receive doses of these eight radionuclides from upstream radiopharmaceutical production facilities, with U.S.
Radiology Business
JANUARY 25, 2024
“We’re getting less and less referrals, and that number is dropping,” Anthony Mitarotondo, MD, director of Stony Brook Radiology, said during a recent public hearing.
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
APRIL 10, 2025
This ranges from a high of 567 scans per physician in over 400 bed hospitals, to a low of 119 in under 200 bed hospitals. The top referring physicians sending patients for PET scans are medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and pulmonologists. Want to share your knowledge of medical imaging?
AuntMinnie
MARCH 7, 2024
Nuclear medicine technologists are being advised that not just any meal works for patients before gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES), a common imaging procedure to evaluate how ingested food moves through the stomach. Yet according to a recent review, GES meal protocols in hospitals across the U.S.
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