Kathy Boyd David
“The 2.5% reduction to work RVUs – the so-called ‘efficiency adjustment’ – must be delayed until CMS is able to produce empirical evidence that an across-the-board reduction is appropriate. That’s…
The majority of participants in the February 2026 cardiac PET case poll said the most appropriate interpretation of the imaging study was multivessel coronary artery disease. The patient, an 87-year-old…
ASNC is staying in touch with radiopharmaceuticals manufacturers that were expecting shortages of Tc-99m pyrophosphate (PYP) and Tc-99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (HMDP or HDP) beginning in late January. Curium is now…
Congress’s failure to pass the remaining 6 fiscal year 2026 spending bills, including for the Department of Health and Human Services, ahead of the Jan. 30 continuing resolution deadline has…
Last week, the Energy and Commerce (E&C) Health Subcommittee and the Ways and Means (W&M) Committee held hearings on healthcare affordability. Both congressional committees called in the CEOs of the…
“Based on the clinical and scientific evidence now available, there are no clinical scenarios or patient subgroups where cardiac PET with myocardial blood flow should be excluded.” Timothy Bateman, MD,…
“The challenge ahead is not whether we can measure flow, but whether we can interpret it wisely. This issue of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology provides a framework for doing…
Following publication of the ACC/AHA/ASE/ASNC/SCCT/SCMR Advanced Training Statement on Advanced Cardiovascular Imaging, cardiologists are pondering what the document’s push toward breaking down the field’s silos will mean for trainees and…
ASNC’s Nuclear Cardiology Knowledge Self-Assessment Program (NCKSAP) PET MPI Module has been expanded to provide clinicians with even more guidance for leveraging the diagnostic and prognostic power of cardiac PET.…
On Jan. 12, ASNC reported that there have been shortages of both Tc-99m pyrophosphate (PYP) and Tc-99m hydroxymethylene diphosphonate (HMDP or HDP) at several U.S. sites. ASNC is in contact…
