After consideration of public comments, we are finalizing, with modification, our proposed change to the definition of approved medical residency program and equivalent terms at 412.105(f)(1)(i), 413.75(b), and 415.152, to specify that accrediting organizations must not use accreditation criteria that promote or encourage discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, or religion, including the use of those characteristics or intentional proxies for those characteristics as a selection criterion for employment, program participation, resource allocation, or similar activities, opportunities, or benefits
The reassignment will be effective beginning January 1, 2026
Except for brachytherapy APCs designated as Low Volume APCs and APC 2648, we will continue our policy and use the costs derived from CY 2024 claims data to set the final CY 2026 payment rates for brachytherapy sources
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What kinds of applications do they have
Optellum Lung Cancer Prediction (LCP) (APC 1508) CPT codes 0721T (Quantitative computed tomography (CT) tissue characterization, including interpretation and report, obtained without concurrent CT examination of any structure contained in previously acquired diagnostic imaging) and 0722T (Quantitative computed tomography (CT) tissue characterization, including interpretation and report, obtained with concurrent CT examination of any structure contained in the concurrently acquired diagnostic imaging dataset (list separately in addition to code for primary procedure)) became effective July 1, 2022, and are associated with the Optellum LCP technology