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04.26.12
PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION STUDY DOCUMENTS IMPACT OF INSURANCE COVERAGE DENIALS ON PATIENT ACCESS TO MEDICAL IMAGING
Washington, D.C. – Today the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) applauds the Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF) for its report that documents the impact of health coverage denials on patients seeking medical imaging exams. The internal case management data released by PAF show that insurance coverage denials to patients seeking critical imaging services have doubled over the last four years, while 90 percent of the reversed denials for imaging services were actually covered in health plan language. Moreover, 81 percent of the insurance denials for imaging procedures were due to prior authorization programs.
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04.5.12
Access to Medical Imaging Coalition Applauds American Board of Internal Medicine’s Choosing Wisely Campaign
Washington, D.C. – The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) today commended the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Choosing Wisely campaign. ABIM spearheads a combined physician and consumer group effort to reduce unnecessary procedures and help ensure that testing is evidence-supported. The campaign includes contributions from the American College of Radiology, the American College of Cardiology and other organizations whose members rely on medical imaging.
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01.5.12
Cancer rates in U.S. keep falling: report
Cancer death rates are continuing to fall, dropping by 1.8 percent per year in men and 1.6 percent per year in women between 2004 and 2008, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report on cancer statistics released on Wednesday. Advances in cancer screening and treatment have prevented more than a million total deaths from cancer since the early 1990s, according to the report.
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01.3.12
Cancer screenings: Early detection equals cure in many cases
Catch cancer early — that’s the point of a cancer screening. During an annual check-up we focus on early detection of cancer. There are things that you can do to monitor for early cancer development and tests your doctor should recommend you consider as well.
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12.13.11
MRI can change diagnoses, care management of knee disorders
The use of MRI for knee disorders can improve diagnostic confidence, and it frequently changes clinical diagnosis and patient care management.
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12.12.11
Imaging device tells breast surgeons if they’ve left any tumor behind
A new ultrasound device helps improve surgeons’ ability to complete a lumpectomy in one procedure.
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12.8.11
Dose tracking calls for collaboration, technology
Experts from around the world convened in Washington, DC, today for a two-day symposium on finding better ways to track and utilize medical radiation dose.
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12.7.11
Mammograms Reduce Breast Cancer Mortality Risk By Half: Study
Regular mammography screening may reduce women’s risk of dying from breast cancer by half, according to a new study from the Netherlands. The decrease was even more pronounced among women ages 70 to 75.
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12.6.11
Targeted Drugs, Lung CT Screening Top Cancer Advances in 2011
As the war against cancer continues, a group representing U.S. oncologists has picked its “Top Five” list of advances in cancer care for 2011. Leading the list are approvals for a bevy of new, targeted drugs for tough-to-treat malignancies, plus promising results suggesting CT chest scans may be an early-detection screen for lung cancer.
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12.4.11
Lung cancer scans will save lives
More people die of lung cancer each year than breast, colon and prostate cancers combined. Of those newly diagnosed, 60 percent are currently not smokers — either they never smoked, or they have quit. And, most alarming, only 15 percent of those diagnosed with lung cancer today will survive five years. The tide can turn, because there is now hope for early detection of lung cancer. That hope is a low-dose CT scan that has been proven to save lives by finding cancerous nodules in the lungs of high-risk patients at Stage I — when surgery is an option. Why should lung cancer be treated any differently than breast, colon or prostate cancers?
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