Administrator Seema Verma said Medicare beneficiaries have traditionally not had predictable, immediate access to innovative devices, but that will change following Tuesday's announcement.
He confirmed the move on Tuesday, noting that the platform’s decision to purge some 70K users after Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill influenced his thinking.
The specialty has seen a decline in available MIPS metrics in recent years, as the feds have "topped out" those with extremely high national performance, experts said.
Organizations including the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging voiced their support for S. 5007 in a letter written to five Republican senators on Monday
The bill mirrors the “Holding Providers Harmless from Medicare Cuts During COVID-19 Act of 2020,” previously introduced in the House and favored by rads.
ASRT on Monday signaled its support for House Resolution 8702, which would hold radiologists and other providers "harmless" from forthcoming Medicare changes.