Last week, ten members in the House of Representatives sent a bipartisan letter urging Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to prevent further imaging cuts to Medicare. Read More
While the majority of people with lung cancer are lifetime smokers, 15 percent are actually diagnosed having never smoked. Read More
HR 3269, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Protection Act of 2011 was introduced yesterday to prevent imaging cuts to Medicare. Read More
A recent report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute found the FDA is overly burdensome for manufacturers when it comes to the Agency’s review of medical devices. Read More
President Obama’s plan to reduce the deficit contains $320 billion in healthcare savings over 10 years including payment cuts to medical imaging. Read More
On Tuesday, the White House issued a Presidential Proclamation from President Obama declaring this week National Health IT Week. Read More
Medical device manufacturers have expressed concerns that frequent turnover at the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) negatively impacts the submission of innovative, life-saving technologies. 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
Today, the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee held a hearing to discuss regulatory reform in the medical device industry. Read More
Yesterday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that colon cancer deaths have dropped significantly in recent years. 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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