PAMA is a program regulated by Medicare to increase the rate of appropriate advanced diagnostic imaging services provided to Medicare beneficiaries.

If a qualified CDSM is not available to you, we are providing access to our qualified CDSM tool, CareSelect. Please self-register by following the login process. If you have already created a CareSelect login, sign in:

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MRI
Nuclear Medicine
PET

To ensure that advanced imaging services ordered for Medicare beneficiaries are medically necessary.

Any provider ordering or furnishing advanced imaging services.

The start date is set for January 1, 2023.

Ordering providers will need to provide their imaging facility of choice with two codes that will document:

1. That a qualified Clinical Decision Support Mechanism (CDSM) was used. This code will begin with a G.
2. That the advanced imaging being ordered is appropriate and medically necessary. This code will be a two-letter Healthcare Common Procedural Coding System (HCPCS) modifier code.

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