On May 9, 2022, the United States Food and Drug Administration added Omnipaque™ and Visipaque™ to their drug shortage list due to the shutdown of a GE Healthcare plant in Shanghai. Though the plant has since reopened, it is anticipated that there will be an...
In May 2022, the American College of Radiology (ACR) published several new and updated Appropriateness Criteria. The following new Criteria were published: Pelvic Floor Dysfunction in Females Osteomyelitis or Septic Arthritis – Child (Excluding Axial Skeleton) Newly...
Carelon has received several questions regarding upcoming codes for LiverMultiScan (LMS) – CPT 0648T/0649T and Cone-beam breast CT (CBCT) – CPT 0633T-0638T. Additional information and rationale is provided below to clarify how these codes will be managed. For...
The American Heart Association and American College of Cardiology recently released a comprehensive guideline for evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain.((Gulati M, Levy PD, Mukherjee D, et al. 2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/CHEST/SAEM/SCCT/SCMR Guideline for the Evaluation and...
The American College of Cardiology (ACC) is expected to update its recommendations for evaluation of chest pain to include coronary CT angiography (CCTA) as a first line study. If this happens, it will represent a seismic shift in the diagnostic strategy for coronary...
In January 2021, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) began the process of updating its recommendations for breast cancer screening. The announcement and call for public comment on the research plan are the initial steps in the update process. Once the...
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued a revised recommendation statement on screening for lung cancer on March 9th, 2021. (( US Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for lung cancer: US Preventive Services Task Force recommendation statement....
In a final recommendation statement published on February 2 in JAMA (( US Preventive Services Task Force. Screening for asymptomatic carotid artery stenosis: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. JAMA. 2021;325(5):476-81. )) , The U.S. Preventive...
From the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians and researchers recognized the importance of rapid diagnosis in containing the spread of the virus. Due in part to the limited availability of laboratory testing, there was interest in the role of chest...