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Lung Cancer Screening Registry

Your participation with the LCSR helps improve quality of care for your practice and enables advances in the practice of lung cancer screenings for patients across the nation. It is no longer a Medicare requirement to submit to a registry.

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Support Clinicians in Providing Quality CT Lung Cancer Screenings

Via regular feedback reports highlighting peer and registry benchmarks, the ACR® Lung Cancer Screening Registry assists physicians in evaluating and demonstrating the quality of CT lung cancer screenings conducted in their practice, including benchmarks from peers and the registry.

Because screening is conducted on an asymptomatic population, the medical community must ensure that risks and benefits are appropriately measured and monitored.

New Developments as the Registry Evolves

The LCSR Committee collects input from the larger lung cancer screening community and monitors new requirements and priorities. The latest developments include:

  • ACR Awarded Planning Grant

    Learn more about the development of a module for actionable incidental pulmonary nodules (IPNs).

    Read about the grant

  • Harnessing the Value of Clinical Registries

    Discover how the IPN module gathers data and facilitates patient care with the grant physician co-advisors’ presentation.

    See their expanded vision for the IPN model

  • LCSR Improvement Projects

    Find materials to guide your team through performance improvement processes and earn CME in annual screening adherence, appropriate radiation dose and increasing smoking cessation.

    Learn more

National Radiology Data Registry (NRDR)

Make your quality improvement programs more potent with direct access to data from your region and the nation.

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Harnessing the Value of LCSR Participation

Charles S. White, MD, Chair of ACR’s Lung Cancer Screening Registry Committee, describes how participating in the LCSR can drive your practice to ensure high-quality radiologic care.

Get Started With the LCSR

Learn how to register and participate in the registry.

To participate in the LCSR, you must:

  • Register each facility that will perform lung cancer screening CT.
  • Complete, sign and return your participation agreement to NRDR.
  • Submit payment.

Once you’ve completed these steps, your facility can start submitting your data.

NRDR

Application Process

We’ve laid out the application process in easy-to-follow steps so you can register each facility where you perform lung cancer screening exams.

Learn how to register your facility

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NRDR Participant?

Add the LCSR to your facility registration.

Add a new facility

Learn How to Submit Your Data to LCSR

You have four options to submit your data to the LCSR. Find the process that works best for your facility:

Find more information with the LCSR Data Submission Overview

Certified Software Partners

Learn more about the organizations helping us advance quality and safety in lung cancer imaging.

Important Reading

Find core documents, related resources and the complete list of LCSR state level comparisons.

Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR)

The ACR QCDR will submit data on your behalf to meet your MIPS participation and reporting requirements.

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