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
Yesterday, the Senate Finance Committee decided to put senior citizens’ access to life-saving imaging, such as CTs and MRIs, at risk by proposing severe and arbitrary medical imaging reimbursement cuts to pay for the implementation of unrelated trade bills. Read More
With MedPAC confirming that the growth of advanced imaging is flat, MITA called on Congress to reject Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommendations to reduce reimbursements for medical imaging and other provisions that will curtail access to life-saving diagnostic and therapeutic medical imaging. Read More
As Congress sends MedPAC a bipartisan letter to reject prior authorization, a new study out this month finds hidden costs associated with Radiology Benefit Managers conducting prior authorization. Read More
Last week, MedPAC finally admitted that growth in imaging utilization is flat, yet they still approved recommendations to further cut reimbursements to imaging procedures. 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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