This month, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Kathleen Sebelius announced an initial draft of the federal government’s strategic plan to combat Alzheimer’s disease. Read More
Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, Rep. Joe Pitts (R-PA) wrote an insightful editorial this weekend about the FDA’s impact on American inventiveness and medical innovation. Read More
Last week, The New York Times and The Atlantic published misleading articles that omitted central facts about the effectiveness and use of medical imaging. Read More
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
HR 3269, the Diagnostic Imaging Services Protection Act of 2011 was introduced yesterday to prevent imaging cuts to Medicare. 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
Yesterday, President Obama unveiled his plan to jumpstart the economy and get Americans back to work. However, he missed an opportunity to highlight an industry that is vital to that goal. Read More
Recognizing the importance of enhancing scientific knowledge to improve the review of medical products is a step in the right direction for FDA. However, concrete steps are needed to promote innovation, protect patient health and grow our economy. 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
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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