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March 14, 2013


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This Issue

HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES UPDATES

MEDICARE
. CMS Announces Coverage Decision for PET

JOINT COMMISION
. March 6, 2013
. February 27, 2013
. February 20, 2013
. February 13, 2013
. February 6, 2013

MEETINGS
. Radiation Oncology Program Accreditation Meeting: Online Evaluation System Available
. Hub and Spoke Residency Models Workshop: Online Evaluation System Available
. 3rd CT Dose Summit: Strategies for CT Scan Parameter Optimization: March 15 - 16, 2013; Phoenix, Arizona
. AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting: March 16 - 19, 2013; Phoenix, Arizona
. 2013 AAPM Summer School: June 16 - 20 , 2013; Colorado Springs, Colorado
. AAPM Annual Meeting & Exhibition: August 4 - 8, 2013; Indianapolis, Indiana
. Chapter Meetings

WEBSITE UPDATES
. NEW! Many older interviews with prominent medical physicists available in flash video for immediate viewing
. Call for Applications for AAPM Website Editor
. 2013 NIH Regional Seminar on Program Funding & Grants Administration in Baltimore, June 26-28
. Call for applications: Editors for Therapy and Imaging Physics for the journal Medical Physics
. Just released - Volume 2 of Controversies in Medical Physics
. News for ABR candidates



MEDICARE

CMS Announces Coverage Decision for PET
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has determined that, unless there is a specific national coverage determination, local Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) may determine coverage within their respective jurisdictions for positron emission tomography (PET) using radiopharmaceuticals for their Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved labeled indications for oncologic imaging.

The effect of this decision is to remove the national non-coverage for FDA approved labeled oncologic uses of radiopharmaceuticals that are not more specifically determined nationally. Thus this decision does not change coverage for any use of PET using radiopharmaceuticals FDG (2-deoxy-2-[F-18] fluoro-D-Glucose (fluorodeoxyglucose)), NaF-18 (fluorine-18 labeled sodium fluoride), ammonia N- 13, or rubidium-82 (Rb-82). This decision does not prevent CMS from determining national coverage for any uses of any radiopharmaceuticals in the future, and if such determinations are made, a future determination would supersede local contractor determination.

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