Category III Code for Absolute Quantitation of Myocardial Blood Flow in PET

In order to spread awareness and help ensure proper utilization, ASNC has released a guide providing specific details on the new Category III code. You can access the guide via the link below.

Intermountain Healthcare is a nonprofit system of 22 hospitals serving patients in Utah and southeastern Idaho. Recently, it successfully expanded its nuclear cardiac program to include cardiac PET.

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Clinical Impact

• Providing information to cardiologists to help them potentially reduced unnecessary diagnostic cardiac catheterizations to focus on revascularization therapies.
• Ability to do more percutaneous coronary interventions in the cath lab during the same time period.

Operational Impact

• Ability to re-task the cardiac catheterization lab to focus on revascularization therapies for better efficiency.
• Supporting cardiac PET volumes of 16-17 patients per day in a 10-hour period, which maintains a profitable service line.

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