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
MITA thanks members of the Senate Finance Committee for removing a provision in the Trade Adjustment Assistance bill that would reduce Medicare reimbursement for imaging procedures. 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
Earlier this week Senators Al Franken (D-MN) and Scott Brown (R-MA) criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Read More
Last week, Senators Feinstein, Isakson and Kerry introduced S.752, the bipartisan Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2011, with the goal reducing lung cancer deaths in the U.S. by 50 percent by 2020. Read More
Today, the New York Times’s article “X-rays and Unshielded Infants” discusses the need for passage of the “Consistency, Accuracy, Responsibility, and Excellence in Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy Act of 2010,” also known as the 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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