Home / CCSNMMI News / SNMMI Needs Your Help – Deadline is June 25

 

SNMMI needs your help with contacting The Joint Commission (TJC) regarding their proposed new and revised diagnostic imaging requirements that address minimum qualifications for technologists who perform diagnostic CT exams in the Ambulatory Care, Critical Access Hospital, and Hospital programs! The deadline to submit comments is June 25, 2015.

SNMMI is pleased with TJC’s recent edits to the proposed requirements, which are:
HR .01.02.05 EP 19
Technologists who perform diagnostic computed tomography (CT) exams have advanced-level certification by American Registry of Radiologic Technologists (ARRT) or the Nuclear Medicine Technology Certification Board (NMTCB) in computed tomography or one of the following qualifications:

• State licensure that permits them to perform diagnostic CT exams and documented training on the provision of diagnostic CT exams or
• Certification and registration in radiography by ARRT and documented training on the provision of diagnostic CT exams or
• Certification in nuclear medicine technology by ARRT or NMTCB and documented training on the provision of diagnostic CT exams

Note 1: Effective January 1, 2018, all technologists who perform diagnostic computed tomography (CT) exams will be expected to have advanced-level certification in computed tomography.

Note 2: This element of performance does not apply to CT exams performed for therapeutic radiation treatment planning or delivery, or for calculating attenuation coefficients for nuclear medicine studies.

Before submitting comments, please review SNMMI’s recent letter to TJC. We then ask that you take TJC’s survey and submit comments on the proposed imaging requirements.

SNMMI thanks you for your help in ensuring these important revisions are finalized. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact SNMMI’s Health Policy and Regulatory Affairs department at hpra@snmmi.org.