PET Services Technical Advisory Committee
Positron Emission Tomography Services Technical Advisory Committee
The current State Health Component Plan and Rules that govern the need for and expansion for Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Services in the State of Georgia were adopted by the Health Strategies Council in 2002. In 2005, during the annual meeting of the Special and Other Services Standing Committee, the members of the committee recommended that a Technical Advisory Committee be formed to review the rules for this service. The Technical Advisory Committee is charged with reviewing the rules to ensure that they adequately address the concerns of mobile PET providers as well as the needs of patients, consumers, regulators, and purchasers.
Membership
The Department of Community Health and the Health Strategies Council sought to ensure that this committee’s membership was broadly-based and reflected a wide geographic representation. Careful consideration was given to selecting both large and small public and private hospitals and mobile PET providers in urban and rural locations.
Work Products
The deliberation of the TAC will result in two products:
- A proposed set of revised rules that will provide standards of review of Certificate of Need applications for PET Services, and
- A corresponding State Health Plan that will outline the planning process and provide the rationale for the development of the proposed rules.