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, 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
Today, the House Energy and Commerce oversight subcommittee held a hearing to discuss regulatory reform in the medical device industry. Read More
Last week, Representatives Ed Whitfield (R-KY) and John Barrow (D-Georgia)introduced the bipartisan Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy (CARE) Act. 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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