The SNMMI recently provided comment on the proposed 2021 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). In their comments, they noted that reimbursement to Nuclear Medicine will be reduced by 8% without Congress addressing the Budget Neutrality Factor. In its comments, the Society went on to say these reductions, if implemented when more than 90% of those surveyed say they’ve seen a decrease in nuclear medicine imaging during the Covid-19 pandemic, will cause a direct negative result in the delivery of services for Medicare beneficiaries as practitioners and facilities move toward consolidation of services as a way of coping with the financial burden of the Pandemic and decreases in Medicare reimbursement. Read more.