CareCore Revises National Minimum Equipment Standards
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January 24, 2008
ASNC is pleased to report that CareCore National accepted ASNC's suggested changes to its minimal equipment requirements, and the company subsequently reversed its policy to accept only dual-headed detectors for cardiac imaging. After learning of CareCore’s new minimum equipment standards for 2008, which stated that currently participating providers in CareCore’s Diagnostic Imaging Network who performed Cardiac Imaging must use dual detectors, ASNC and the Society of Nuclear Medicine sent a joint letter on December 13, 2007 to CareCore to express strong objections to the unwarranted policy and to explain that both single head and dual headed detectors produce quality images.
In early January, ASNC received a letter from CareCore stating that, after receiving and reviewing ASNC and SNM’s letter, the company has agreed to accept either single head or dual headed gamma cameras for cardiac imaging. CareCore further stated that they agreed that there is no peer-reviewed literature that indicates superior health outcomes when dual headed cameras are used for myocardial perfusion imaging.
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