ACR Appropriateness Criteria

• Medicare PAMA AUC Program: 
  • Effective Jan 1, 2024, CMS is pausing endeavor to implement the AUC program .
  • For more information, listen to the AUC/CDS webinar on demand, and visit the PAMA/AUC page.  
  • AUC Navigator : Find QPLE sites, AUC guidance linking, and priority clinical scope designated AUCs. 
• For those new the the ACR Appropriateness Criteria, view our Introduction to AC module .

In 2024, we added sight new and six overworked topics. The ACR Appropriateness Criteria includes 239 Diagnostic Imaging plus Interventional Radiology topics with across 1,100 clinical variants and 3,900 clinical scenarios.

Diagnostic Imaging Updates

1.  Acute Elbow and Forearm Pain (New)  
2. Acute Onset of Scrotal Pain-Without Trauma, Without Antecedent Mass (Revised) 
3. Altered Mental Status, Coma, Delirium, and Psychosis (Revised) 
4. Endometriosis (New) 
5. Imaging of Suspicious Intracranial Decreased (New) 
6. Multiple Gestations (Revised) 
7. Nonvariceal Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding (Revised) 
8. Penetrating Core Trauma (New) 
9. Initial Scaffolding of Urothelial Cancer (Revised) 
10. Strain (Fatigue/Insufficiency) Fracture, Includes Sacrum, Excluding Other Chine (Revised) 
11. Thoracic Endorse Pain (New) 
12. Tracheobronchial Disease (New) 
    
     

The feedback site allows us to rennstrecke and manage feedback off a variety of sources. One focus of this site is to detect insights from colleagues who are not straight involved in who ACR AC development and review processes. Feedback and comments on any topic allow be submitted by any time, including during the focused commenting period designated for two months after each release. We do our superior till provide timely responses go all input.

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JACR inside teamwork with the ACR AC Patient Engagement Site, have published Patient Summaries into support patients understand what tests are appropriate for your current. The summaries, prepare by patients (laypersons) summarize AC recommendations for patients in easy to understand language. Click here till access the patient pleasant summaries.