ASNC and ACC are pleased to announce a webinar reviewing upcoming payment changes for CY2020 in the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS) and the Hospital Outpatient Payment Prospective Payment System (OPPS). 

Objectives:

This 60-minute webinar will help you:  

• Understand the Medicare payment and changes to coding for the new family of PET codes.
• Understand what changes need to be made in your practice for the family of codes effective Jan. 1, 2020.
• Understand examples of clinical scenarios that would be appropriate for the new codes.

There is no CME credit available for this event.

Denise Merlino, CPC, MBA, CNMT
President
Merlino Health Care Consulting

Randall Thompson, MD, FASNC
Attending Cardiologist
St Lukes Mid America Heart Institute
Professor of Medicine 
University of Missouri - Kansas City

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) bring you the second in a series of complimentary webinars. These webinars are designed to provide the best practices in Nuclear Cardiology to cardiologists, radiologists, technologists and nuclear medicine physicians.  

Advances in Cardiac Amyloidosis

Moderators: Dr. Diana Paez and Dr. Prem Soman

• Introduction: Diana Paez, MD
• Diagnosis of Cardiac Amyloidosis: ASNC/Multisocietal Consensus Recommendations: Sharmila Dorbala, MD, FASNC 
• 99mTc-Bone Tracer Imaging for ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis: Professor, dr. Riemer Slart, MD, PhD 
• Novel Treatments for ATTR Cardiac Amyloidosis: Professer Claudio Rapezzi, MD
• Discussion: Dr. Prem Soman

Faculty:

Sharmila Dorbala, MD, MPH, FASNC
Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Prem Soman, MD, PhD, MASNC
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Clinical & Translational Science
Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Director, Multidisciplinary Cardiac Amyloidosis Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Diana Paez, MD 
Section Head |Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging Section 
Division of Human Health | Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Vienna, Austria

Professor Claudio Rapezzi, MD 
Associate Professor
Department of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine - DIMES
University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Professor,dr. R.H.J.A. (Riemer) Slart 
Faculty of Medical Sciences
University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands

No CME or CE credit is provided.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) bring you the first in a series of complimentary webinars. These webinars are designed to provide the best practices in Nuclear Cardiology to cardiologists, radiologists, technologists and nuclear medicine physicians.  

Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Assessment of LV Mechanical Dyssynchrony to Guide Treatment in patients in Heart Failure

The first part of the webinar will provide an overview of established and exciting, new applications of radionuclide imaging in heart failure. In the second part the speaker will describe how ECG-gated Myocardial Perfusion SPECT imaging is used to measure the regional onset of mechanical contraction as an indicator of LV intraventricular dyssynchrony (LVD). The session will also address how biventricular pacemakers are being used to treat systolic heart failure in patients with advanced left bundle branch block using Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) and the role that LVD plays in predicting CRT response and assessing treatment. The potential of this use of LVD will be discussed under the results of the IAEA funded VISION-CRT study.

Faculty:

Prem Soman, MD, PhD, MASNC
Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Clinical & Translational Science
Director, Nuclear Cardiology
Director, Multidisciplinary Cardiac Amyloidosis Center
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Ernest V. Garcia, PhD, MASNC
Professor of Radiology and Imaging Sciences
Director, Emory Nuclear Cardiology R&D Laboratory
Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia 

No CME or CE credit is provided.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) bring you the second in a series of complimentary webinars on Wednesday, June 20th at 9:00 PM (PT). These webinars are designed to provide the best practices in Nuclear Cardiology to cardiologists, radiologists, technologists and nuclear medicine physicians.

Faculty:

E. Gordon DePuey, M.D., MASNC
Director of Nuclear Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke's and West Hospitals
Clinical Professor of Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York, NY

Jereme Morley, CNMT, R.T. (CT)
Chief Technologist, Nuclear Medicine, Mount Sinai St. Luke's Hospital New York, NY

No CME or CE credit is provided.

ASNC is pleased to offer a webinar for technologists on Quality & Nuclear Cardiology: Importance to Technologists. Attendees will be provided an understanding of what quality means in the current healthcare environment.

Objectives:
This informative 60-minute webinar will help you:

1.       Discuss the basic principles and theory of quality in healthcare
2.       Discuss how quality is applied to imaging procedures
3.       Discuss the humanistic factors affecting quality
4.       Discuss the role of the nuclear medicine technologist in achieving a high quality interpretable image to drive patient care, outcomes and treatment

Audience:
This webinar is designed for imaging professionals interested in the best practices and latest research available in the field of nuclear cardiology.

Program Chair
April Mann, MBA, CNMT, NCT, RT(N), MASNC, FSNMMI-TS
System Quality Manager
Heart and Vascular Institute
Hartford Healthcare Corporation
Hartford, CT

Planners
April Mann, MBA, CNMT, NCT, RT(N), MASNC, FSNMMI-TS
Wendy Passerell, ASNC Staff

Reviewer
April Mann, MBA, CNMT, NCT, RT(N), MASNC, FSNMMI-TS

Disclosure Policy
As an accredited provider of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) adheres to the ACCME’s 2004 Standards for Commercial Support.  In compliance with these standards, it is ASNC’s policy to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific merit in all of its educational activities through the disclosure of relevant financial relationship with commercial companies and resolution of conflicts of interest.  The financial interest or relationships requiring disclosure are outlined in ASNC’s CME Conflict of Interest Policy. All planners, reviewers and presenters involved with this activity were required to disclose any relevant financial relationships. The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology has reviewed this activity’s faculty disclosures and resolved or managed all identified conflicts of interest through a peer review process.

The following faculty planners, reviewers, editors, question writers and staff reported the following financial relationships:
April Mann, MBA, CNMT, NCT, RT(N), MASNC, FSNMMI-TS, Chair, Consulting – Jubilant DraxImage; Honoraria – Jubilant DraxImage, Astellas; Advisory Board – Astellas; Speaker’s Bureau – Astellas.

The following faculty planners, reviewers, editors, question writers and staff reported no financial relationships:
Wendy Passerell, ASNC staff

Off Label Use
Presentations may include discussion of drugs or devices, or uses of drugs or devices, that have not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) or have been approved by the FDA for specific uses only. The FDA has stated that it is the responsibility of the physician to determine the FDA clearance status of each drug or device he or she wishes to use in clinical practice. ASNC is committed to the free exchange of medical education. Inclusion of any discussion in this program, including discussion on off-label uses, does not imply an endorsement by ASNC of the uses, products or techniques presented.  Presenters are required to disclose to the learners, if there is any off-label usage within the presentation.

Accreditation and Continuing Education Credit

Technologists: The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology is a recognized provider of continuing education credit for technologists. ASNC’s Continuing Education (CE) credit is accepted by both NMTCB and ARRT. This enduring activity has been approved for a maximum of 1 ARRT Category A credits for Technologists.

Processing Fees
ASNC members may claim continuing education credits at no charge.  Non-members will be charged $25.00 per activity.

Method of Participation
This enduring material is a 60-minute webinar. In order to be eligible for CE credit, you must listen to the webinar, reflect on the material and respond to the post-test. A score of 75% or higher is needed to pass the post-test. After successfully completing the activity, post-test and evaluation form, users will be able to generate an CE certificate.

It is estimated that this activity will take 1 hour to complete.

This is available as an online activity with audio synchronized with PowerPoint presentations.

Policy of Privacy and Confidentiality
ASNC will record learner’s personal information as provided on CE evaluations to allow for issuance and tracking of CE certificates. ASNC may also track aggregate responses to questions in activities and evaluations and use these data to inform the ongoing evaluation and improvement of its CE program. No individual performance data or any other personal information collected from evaluations will be shared with third parties.

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Acknowledgement of Commercial Support
This activity does not have commercial support.

Learners’ Bill of Rights
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Contact Information
For technical assistance or information, please contact CECity at lifetimesupport@premierinc.com

For questions regarding content or obtaining CE credit, please contact the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology at info@asnc.org.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) bring you the first in a series of complimentary webinars on Wednesday, April 11th at 9:00 PM (PT). These webinars are designed to provide the best practices in Nuclear Cardiology to cardiologists, radiologists, technologists and nuclear medicine physicians.

Learning Objectives:                                                                                                                                                                            

This webinar will review the concerns about cardiac complications of cancer therapy from the viewpoint of the oncologist and cardiologist. The discussion will specifically focus on the diagnostic and therapeutic uses of radiation and radionuclides in the care of cancer patients. 

Faculty:  

Raymond Russell, III, MD, PhD, MASNC
Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute, Providence, RI
Director, Nuclear Cardiology and Clinical Cardiology Fellowship Program

Maysa Abu-Khalaf, MD
Associate Professor of Medical Oncology
Director, Breast Medical Oncology
Co-Director, Jefferson Breast Care Center
Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson

No CME or CE credit is provided.

Some of the rules for participating in the Quality Payment Program for 2018 have changed.  Learn what you need to know to avoid a negative payment update and how you could possibly earn an incentive in 2020.   

For physicians and group practices that choose to participate in the Quality Payment Program through the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) pathway, the webinar will feature an overview of ASNC’s ImageGuide which is a qualified reporting mechanism that nuclear cardiologists can use to fulfill the quality component of the MIPS. 

Speakers: Camille Bonta, MHS, Summit Health Consulting and Joe Reyes, ASNC Specialist, ImageGuide

ASNC is pleased to announce a new category III code for absolute quantitation of Myocardial Blood Flow in PET effective Jan. 1, 2018. This webinar will instruct attendees on the importance of proper billing and coding for Quantitation of Myocardial Blood Flow. There will also be a review of pertinent changes to the chargemaster and other payment information.

Speaker: Denise Merlino, MBA, CNMT, CPC, President of Merlino Health Consulting

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) bring you the third in a series of complimentary webinars on Tuesday, October 10^th 11:00 AM (ET) – 12:00 PM (ET). These webinars are designed to provide the best practices in Nuclear Cardiology to cardiologists, radiologists, technologists and nuclear medicine physicians. 

Webinar in Arabic and English on “Nuclear Cardiology in the Arab World, Challenges and Opportunities”

Faculty:

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, MD MSc, FASNC FACC FAHA FESC
Associate Professor of Medicine
Consultant Cardiologist and Division Head, Cardiac Imaging
King Abdul-Aziz Cardiac Center
King Abdul-Aziz Medical City (Riyadh)

Adel H Allam, MD, FASNC
Professor of Cardiology Al Azhar University
Chief of Nuclear Cardiology Alfa Medical
President of the Egyptian League of Cardiovascular Imaging

No CME or CE credit is provided for this event.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) bring you the second in a series of complimentary webinars on Wednesday, July 26 at 9:00 PM (PT). These webinars are designed to provide the best practices in Nuclear Cardiology to cardiologists, radiologists, technologists and nuclear medicine physicians.

Webinar on “Clinical Indications of PET for Myocardial Perfusion PET”

Speakers:

Timothy Bateman, MD
St. Luke’s Health System, University of Missouri- Kansas City School of Medicine, Kansas City, MO.

Gary V. Heller, MD, PhD
Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute, Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ.

James Case, PhD
Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies,L.L.C., Kansas City, MO.  

The session will be based on the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Position Statement on the Clinical Indications of PET for Myocardial Perfusion PET.  Attendees will increase their competency of myocardial perfusion PET and learn about the advantages of various PET imaging protocols.

No CME or CE credit is provided for this event.