Canon Medical AI vs Optellum Virtual Nodule Clinic

Optellum Virtual Nodule Clinic scores lung cancer risk for incidentally found nodules on CT, and the 510(k) text limits that scoring function to pulmonologists and radiologists. Its one FDA record is K202300 from March 2021, which names QuantX as predicate. Optellum's reimbursement page lists CPT Category III codes 0721T and +0722T and a Medicare hospital outpatient payment of $650.50 under APC 1508 for 2026 (national average, before deductibles). That is a rate paid to the hospital, not a price to the buyer, and the home page offers a demo and shows no price. A pulmonology program or lung nodule clinic is the Optellum buyer.

Canon Medical sells AiCE deep learning reconstruction for CT, MR, PET and X-ray. The vendor claims up to 82.4% dose reduction, measured in a phantom model observer study. AiCE comes with Canon scanners, so a site that wants lower CT dose from its next scanner is the Canon buyer.

Canon changes how the scanner builds the image, and Optellum scores the nodule on the finished CT.