MITA News

• MITA News
  12.21.12

  Members of Congress criticize Medicare medical imaging cuts

  Seventeen members of Congress showed their support for medical imaging in a letter to House leadership today. The bipartisan letter expressed concern over cuts in Medicare reimbursement rates that the representatives fear will reduce imaging access to seniors and stall new equipment manufacturing jobs.

• MITA News
  10.04.12

  Medical imaging OEMs lobby to protect helium supply

  In a letter to lawmakers of both parties in both chambers, the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance, or MITA, said that the Bureau of Land Management could be forced to shut down the country’s Federal helium privatization program as early as next year, taking 30 percent of the world’s helium supply out of circulation.

• MITA News
  10.03.12

  MITA lobbies Congress to maintain helium reserve

  The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has written a letter to Congress urging policymakers to keep the Federal Helium Reserve operational to avoid a major supply crisis early in 2013.

• MITA News
  09.26.12

  Patient Advocates Come to the Aid of Imaging

  As elected officials hunt for possible savings in the Federal budget to fund various end-of-year priorities — including at least a temporary fix to for the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) cuts to Medicare physician reimbursement scheduled for January 1 — it is vital that policy makers have a correct picture of current levels of imaging utilization, says Brian Connell, director of Government Relations for the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance (MITA).

• MITA News
  06.22.12

  NEMA Congratulates MITA for FDA pediatric imaging award

  NEMA congratulates its Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) on receiving U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Leveraging/Collaboration Award for developing collaborative network aimed at reducing unnecessary radiation exposure from imaging exams to pediatric patients.

• MITA News
  10.26.11

  Industry, Consumer Groups Urge HHS To Implement Sunshine Act Provision

  Industry and consumer groups Oct. 25 urged the Department of Health and Human Services to fully implement the provision in the Physician Payments Sunshine Act requiring the disclosure of payments to physicians and teaching hospitals.

• MITA News
  10.12.11

  IOM’s 510(k) Proposal Keeps Getting Slammed

  Device companies are maintaining a united front against an Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommendation that the FDA discard the 510(k). But some of what IOM has to say about other aspects of device oversight warrants consideration, commenters state.

• MITA News
  10.07.11

  Imaging lobby slams Blue Cross pre-authorization

  On Wednesday, the Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance, a medical equipment lobby, called on Congress to reject the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association’s proposal for Medicare to use preauthorization for advanced imaging services.

• MITA News
  10.06.11

  Imaging groups balk at Blue Cross $300B savings plan

  The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) has issued a plan that moves the healthcare system away from a fee-for-service model to a patient-centered model. However, the Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) and Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) have called on Congress to reject the BCBSA proposal for Medicare to use prior authorization for advanced imaging services.

• MITA News
  10.05.11

  The threat to Medicare medical imaging services and what it means for patient access

  Heralded by the New England Journal of Medicine as one of the most important “developments that changed the face of clinical medicine” in the last millennium, and dubbed by the National Institutes of Health as one of the most important medical tools of the future, medical imaging services are an essential component of our nation’s health system.