New Center Tools

As a new PET center you are challenged to grow patient volumes as quickly as possible through community marketing and education. In addition, ensuring compliance, understanding reimbursement, maintaining the safety of employees and providing high quality patient care are important for the long-term success of your practice.

• Lab Accreditation

  One of the key decisions is whether to have your PET lab accredited. While not currently mandatory in most areas of the country, it can be used as a differentiator in a competitive market.

• Market Your PET Center

  Building awareness with the referring physicians of your new service in your local community is key to driving patient volumes. A strong marketing plan builds a strategy and related action plan to fit your local environment.

• Safety Information

  Since PET has 511keV gamma ray energy that is more than 3 times greater than the 140 keV gamma ray energy of Technetium 99m, a higher level of protection is needed for transportation and dose administration.

• Reimbursement

  Understanding the changing reimbursement guidelines is critical to a successful billing process that affects your practice.

• PET Center Locator

  This new online search engine, allows patients, doctors, and other site administrators, to find the PET or PET/CT Center closest to them. By listing your center in the National PET database, your site will be accessible to millions of internet searchers.