When sending your license renewals, please be sure to include:

1. A completed Renewal Form
2. A copy of your  ARRT or NMTCB card
3. Proof of CEU’s – e.g. ASRT printout
4. A check or money order payable to: The Commonwealth of Mass

The Massachusetts legislative session is off to a slow start this year. We continue to monitor state legislative and regulatory affairs and of course will keep you informed of any important activity.

We are writing today to ask for your help in contacting your federal legislators to ask for their support of the MARCA bill. Please see the sample letter below which has been prepared by the ASRT and the RA community that makes this a quick and easy process. Timing is important, The RA’s will be visiting Capitol Hill this week and we want the topic to be on our legislators’ minds at the time of their visit.  

Even if you have contacted your legislators in the past to ask for their support, please do it again now and support the RAs.

More information is available by clicking the action link on the ASRT website.  As always, if you have any questions be sure to email us at info@msrt-ma.org.

MARCA sample letter

Sincerely,
David Leclair, BS, RT(R) & Patricia Willett BS, (R) (CT)
MSRT Governance Committee Co-Chairs

Achievements in Continuing Education (ACE)
Request for Approval of Educational Activities

Achievements in Continuing Education (ACE)
Request for Approval of Educational Activities

National Radiologic Technology Week^® is celebrated annually to recognize the vital work of R.T.s across the nation. The celebration takes place each year during the week that includes Nov. 8 to commemorate the discovery of the x-ray by Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen on Nov. 8, 1895.

The week-long celebration calls attention to the important role medical imaging and radiation therapy professionals play in patient care and health care safety.

In recognition of National Rad Tech Week 2016, we are offering a complimentary lecture approval to Massachusetts Facilities.  Simply download the Complimentary NRTW ACE Approval Coupon and submit with your ACE Lecture Approval Form.  If you have any questions, please contact the MSRT Office.

We have also submitted a request for an official proclamation from Governor Baker, officially naming November 6-12, 2016 as Rad Tech Week on behalf of all imaging professions in Massachusetts.

Dear ASRT Member:

The final day to submit comments on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs regulatory proposal that would allow advanced practice registered nurses full practice authority without clinical supervision or mandatory collaboration with physicians is Monday, July 25, 2016. The ASRT strongly opposes Section 17.415(d)(1)(i)(B) of this measure as only registered radiologic technologists should perform procedures that use ionizing radiation. This regulation, as proposed, grants full practice authority to certified nurse practitioners and includes the ability to “order, perform, supervise, and interpret laboratory and imaging studies” in VA facilities. Certified nurse practitioners do not have the education, experience or skills required to perform highly technical procedures like conventional radiography and fluoroscopy, computed tomography, magnetic resonance, nuclear medicine, vascular-interventional procedures, cardiac-interventional procedures or bone densitometry.

ASRT encourages all radiologic technologists to join in our effort to oppose this shortsighted proposal and demand that “perform, supervise and interpret” be removed from Section 17.415(d)(1)(i)(B). Please submit your comments to the federal government and let them know that you strongly oppose the VA’s efforts to bypass patient safety measures by allowing nonqualified certified nursing professionals to perform medical imaging procedures. You can submit comments directly through the ASRT Advocacy Action Center. ASRT has created a comments template that you can easily customize. Please go to the ASRT Advocacy Action Center to voice your concerns about this proposed regulation. The deadline for comment submission is Monday, July 25, 2016, so your urgent action is needed today!

Sincerely,
Sal Martino, Ed.D., R.T.(R), FASRT, CAE Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director