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NRC Executive Order
On July 16 NRC held a stakeholders’ meeting on the Administration’s recent Executive Order that directs the NRC to reconsider their radiation framework, specifically it’s use of the linear no threshold (LNT) model and its use of the radiation principle that aims to keep radiation exposures “as low as reasonably […]
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MPFS and OPPS Proposed Rules
On July 14 CMS released the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System Proposed Rules. The OPPS proposed rule did not change the payment methodology for separately paid radiopharmaceuticals. We will continue to work to urge CMS to use “average sales price” rather than “mean unit cost.” […]
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SNMMI Health Policy & Regulatory Affairs (HPRA) – Theranostics Report Language Updates
SNMMI was successful in getting legislative report language in the FY26 Labor, Health and Human Services (L-HHS) Senate funding bill that: “encourages the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Cancer Institute (NCI) to support research that utilizes and promotes theranostics, where appropriate, to provide early, accurate, and effective cancer diagnosis […]