NASCI North American Society for Cardiac Imaging

The North American Society for Cardiovascular Imaging (NASCI) is an international organization dedicated to the advancement of cardiovascular imaging.

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Raleigh, NC 27607
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2008 Call for Abstracts Now Open

Deadline for submissions EXTENDED: NOW May 30, 2008
Please click here to submit your abstract
We hope you will participate!

AHA Young investigator Award Information

Dear Colleagues,

I’m delighted to inform you that the decision of CMS for CCTA is to make NO CHANGE to the coverage determination as it stands. There will be NO National Coverage Determination (NCD) and NO request for Continuing Evidence Development (CED). The Decision Summary is below followed by a link to the full memo. We are pleased that NASCI took a leadership role in the multi-society presentation of available data to CMS. This is a remarkable example of what can occur when we all work together. Thank you all for your willingness to write letters to your local Congressional Representatives and Senators. NASCI will continue to be engaged in actively pursuing the reimbursement process among both private and public payers for the procedures which we know are important tools for clinical practice.

All the best,

Pamela K. Woodard, M.D.
President, NASCI

Decision Summary

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has decided to make no change to section 220.1 of the National Coverage Determination Manual titled "Computed Tomography" (Pub. 100-3, 220.1). We have decided that no national coverage determination on the use of cardiac computed tomography angiography for coronary artery disease is appropriate at this time and that coverage should be determined by local contractors through the local coverage determination process or case-by-case adjudication.
https://www.cms.hhs.gov/mcd/viewdecisionmemo.asp?id=206

If you’re not a member, please join NASCI – your cardiac imaging society – for a world of benefits and a support structure to guide you through the breakthroughs in cardiac CT and MR imaging. If your membership has lapsed, please renew.

Remember, save-the-date for our 36th Annual Meeting to be held at the J.W. Marriott Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, AZ, October 11-14, 2008.

MultiSociety Letter to CMS RE: Coronary CTA NCD

NASCI response to CMS re: Cardiac MR CPT Codes

Review All Cases In Point

Case-In-Point Submission Procedures

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Medis Medical Imaging Systems

Medrad, Inc.

Barco Medical Imaging

Diagnostic Imaging

ADVANCE

Emergency Cardiac Imaging

Supporters

Toshiba: Platinum

Bayer: Gold

Bracco Diagnostics: Gold

GE Healthcare: Gold

Philips: Gold

Siemens: Gold

TeraRecon: Gold

Covidien: Silver

Barco: Bronze

Vital Images: Bronze

NASCI has partnered with SIR for educational credit for NASCI 2007, Washington, D.C., October 5-9. Physician CME certificates for this course can be obtained from SIR 4-6 weeks after the conclusion of the meeting. To retrieve your CME from this meeting, please visit the SIR website – www.SIRweb.org
Click on Meetings and Education on the left, then select CME Certificates, and then Other Meetings.
If you have any questions please call SIR at 703.691.1805.