MITA News

  • MITA News
    06.15.11

    Proposal To Curb Medicare’s Use Of Imaging Sparks Furor

    Even before its official release, a new proposal to curb the overuse of costly MRIs and other advanced imaging in Medicare is sparking a furor among physician and patient groups. The battle shows how hard it is to make even small changes in the sprawling program for the elderly – much less overhaul it.

  • MITA News
    06.13.11

    Device Industry Urges CMS To Protect Use Of Medical Innovations In ACO Program

    In an attempt to prevent accountable care organizations from stifling medtech innovation, medical device groups are calling for widespread changes to a Medicare Shared Savings Program proposal unveiled earlier this spring.

  • MITA News
    06.08.11

    Medical Lobbies Make Final Pitches For Reshaping ACO Rule

    The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA), which represents the makers of MRI, CT, PET and other state-of-the art imaging equipment, urged CMS to extend contracts with ACOs beyond three years, the period called for in the proposed rule for the ACO Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP).

  • MITA News
    06.01.11

    MITA Issues Statement on JACR Radiology Benefit Managers Study

    MITA applauds the authors of “Radiology Benefit Managers (RBMs): Cost Saving or Cost Shifting” for uncovering the hidden costs of RBMs.

  • MITA News
    05.31.11

    Most Extracardiac Incidentals Are Better Left Unfound

    When scanning patients with suspected heart disease, the last thing you want is a bunch of incidental findings like lung nodules that are almost certainly not cancer. No really. Because finding them generally does more harm than good, according to a cardiac imaging expert who spoke last week at the British Institute of Radiology President’s Conference in London.

  • MITA News
    05.24.11

    New GHTF Expected in 2013, Industry Works to Be Heard

    A new regulator-only Global Harmonization Task Force (GHTF) is expected in 2013, as the previous task force’s study groups will finish up their work through the end of next year.

  • MITA News
    05.02.11

    Industry Wants Easy-to-Follow Sunshine Requirements

    Industry is against expanding the scope of the physician payment sunshine provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as CMS establishes regulatory guidance.

  • MITA News
    04.22.11

    Device Industry Raises Cost Concerns For Planned Labeling Repository

    The device industry recently raised concerns that a proposed labeling repository and database of photographs for 510(k) cleared technologies would be too costly for both the agency and product sponsors, especially due to the tough economic and budgetary environment.

  • MITA News
    04.07.11

    MITA Statement on MedPAC Medical Imaging Recommendations

    MedPAC continues to rely on out-of-date data to reach inaccurate conclusions regarding the use of life-saving advanced medical imaging services. Today, while MedPAC finally admitted that imaging utilization is flat, they still approved recommendations to further cut reimbursements to imaging procedures that have experienced significant cuts during the last five years and already face added cuts over the next few years.

  • MITA News
    04.06.11

    What’s Appropriate?

    Dose reduction has unquestionably become one of the hot topics in the medical imaging industry, alongside more controversial ones like teleradiology. But unlike the latter, dose reduction is something that all parties—from physicians to patients to manufacturers—agree on: the less radiation a patient is exposed to, the better.