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REIMBURSEMENT AND THE NUCLEAR FACILITY:
AN OVERVIEW

The Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC) receives numerous phone calls and e-mails each week from individuals who are concerned with their compliance to insurance carriers' payment policies. Over the past few years, several carriers have adopted payment policy for the reimbursement of nuclear cardiology procedures, requiring accreditation of the laboratory.

A listing of payment policies of which the ICANL is aware can be found on this website under Payment Policies.

Tamara Sloper, IAC Marketing Specialist, is available to answer your general questions about payment policy and reimbursement. She may be contacted toll-free at 800-838-2100, or via email at sloper@intersocietal.org.

REIMBURSEMENT AND THE ICANL

THE ICANL DOES:

Attempt to stay abreast of payment policies as a service to the nuclear cardiology, nuclear medicine, and PET imaging communities

Communicate information to nuclear medicine and nuclear cardiology laboratories about payment policies (through the ICANL website, Newsletter articles and other mailings to laboratories)

Employ knowledgeable staff to assist laboratories with basic questions about payment policies

Provide, upon request, the same information to insurance carriers as we publish in the accredited laboratory listing on the website.

THE ICANL DOES NOT:

Establish rules or regulations for the insurance carriers

Have the authority to make decisions regarding implementation dates, extensions, etc.

Have responsibility for notifying providers of nuclear medicine and nuclear cardiology testing services of payment policies

 

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