This week’s must read: the Senate HELP Committee held a hearing on medical device user payment, computed radiography (CR) technology lowers medical radiation dose while improving image quality, researchers use fMRI to see physiologic differences in autistic children and a group of bipartisan senators ask President Obama to reject further Medicare cuts to medical imaging. Read More
This week’s must read: Senators urge President Obama not to support imaging cuts, a national doctors group recommends annual mammograms at age 40, Congressional hearing on FDA review of medical devices and high-pitch CT slashes pediatric medical radiation dose. Read More
In a letter sent to the White House earlier this week, a bipartisan group of senators let by Sens. Kerry and Kohl “urged President Barack Obama to reject calls for deeper Medicare cuts for medical imaging services.” Read More
Yesterday, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommended that women should have annual mammograms starting at age 40. Read More
Today, the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee held a hearing to discuss regulatory reform in the medical device industry. Read More
A new study presented this weekend in Denver at the Society of Cardiovascular CT (SCCT) found that a new scanning technique can significantly reduce medical radiation dose. Read More
This week’s must read: ACR recommends that breast cancer screening begin at age 40, cancer screenings can be improved based on your family history, CT detects increased risk of heart attack or stroke, PET scans can help diagnose Alzheimer’s and a new study finds that radiology benefit managers (RBMs) could increase the cost of healthcare. Read More
A recent study published in the Archives of Neurology found that positron emission tomography (PET) “may help identify findings in brain tissue associated with Alzheimer’s disease.” Read More
In a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers from Yale University have found that coronary artery CT is effective in detecting coronary calcium buildup. Read More
This week’s must read: Congress and industry continue to oppose imaging cuts to Medicare and two studies find that CT scans significantly reduce lung and colon cancer deaths. Read More
MITA released a report yesterday detailing the troubling impact of insurance coverage denials on patient access to medical imaging procedures. Data gathered by the Patient Advocacy Foundation (PAF) show that denials for patients seeking potentially life-saving medical imaging services have doubled in the past four years. Of even greater concern is the finding that 90 percent of the reversed denials for imaging services were actually covered by patients’ health plans. And on average, PAF’s professional case managers required 15.4 contacts per patient case to resolve the imaging issue, meaning it took on average more than 15 phone calls, letters or emails to determine why the imaging test was being denied coverage. Read More
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