The nation's largest commercial health insurer is pausing implementation until "at least the end of the national public health emergency period," the organization said Thursday.
SNMMI President Alan Packard, PhD, told Health Imaging he was "extremely surprised" PET imaging wasn't listed as a requirement for Biogen's aducanumab.
The Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee reviews data on radiopharmaceuticals and contrast media, recommending best practices to the agency's commissioner.
Forty-seven percent of presenters and moderators at the society’s 2018 conference who received industry payments didn’t disclose at least one exceeding $200, a new analysis shows.
Alzheimer's patients will need to have a brain scan showing the presence of beta-amyloid in order to receive Biogen's Aduhelm (aducanumab) treatment, yet Medicare doesn't cover such exams.
Baiywo Rop, MD, alleges AdventHealth terminated him for racially motivated reasons and his attorney says there was plenty of supporting evidence, adding the judge "disregarded" the will of jurors.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging came out in support of the administration's decision, saying the "potential benefits of the drug certainly outweigh the risks."
Akumin will deploy Philips' new workflow technology across its freestanding imaging center enterprise, which currently includes 134 locations, the pair said Wednesday.
While just under 4% of all imaging is oncologic, about 44% of radiologic cases involving a disputed diagnosis are related to the deadly disease, experts explained in JACR.
MITA addressed a 9-page letter to Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, following her recent confirmation as the first Black woman to lead the trillion-dollar agency.
