Adoption of Lung-Rads is essentially required to be designated as an ACR screening center. To be reimbursed for Lung Cancer Screening, you must provide registr

Adoption of Lung-Rads is essentially required to be designated as an ACR screening center. To be reimbursed for Lung Cancer Screening, you must provide registry data to CMS (the registry is run by the ACR). It's not codified into Federal Law, but if reimbursement requires a Lung-Rads code, then it's more or less mandated. I'd argue out of all the fields of medicine, Radiology is pretty quick to adopt new technology or reporting schemes "on the ground". See the proliferation of Lung-Rads, TI-Rads, Cad-Rads, LI-Rads, PI-Rads, etc.