Legislation & Regulatory Updates
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01.12.12
AMIC Urges MedPAC to Consider Correlation between Inadequate Medicare Reimbursement for Medical Imaging and Adverse Patient Outcomes
Washington, D.C. – The Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) must consider the potential downstream impact on beneficiaries’ access and health outcomes when advising Congress about physician payments, the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) said today.
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07.21.11
AMIC Applauds Senators For Defending Patient Access to Medical Imaging
Washington, D.C. – The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) today applauded the efforts of a bipartisan group of senators, led by Senators John Kerry (D-MA) and Herb Kohl (D-WI), who took a stand to protect patient access to medical imaging in a letter to President Obama.
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06.15.11
MEDPAC RECOMMENDATIONS THREATEN PATIENT ACCESS TO THE RIGHT SCAN AT THE RIGHT TIME
Washington, D.C. – The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) today said that despite acknowledging that advanced imaging services growth is flat, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission’s (MedPAC) recommendations to reduce reimbursements for CT, MRI and PET services and impose prior authorization requirements will reduce patients’ access to life-saving diagnostic and therapeutic services. AMIC called on Congress to reject the recommendations.
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06.14.11
June AMIC Letter to MedPAC
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) and the undersigned patient advocates are writing to express our concerns about the ancillary services recommendations, focused on the use of diagnostic imaging services, which MedPAC approved at its April 2011 meeting. As MedPAC’s recommendations have the potential to impact the delivery of care to nearly 48 million Medicare beneficiaries, we urge you to reconsider your recommendations. To implement the recommendations as drafted would further limit access to life-saving diagnostic imaging services while yielding questionable savings for the Medicare program.
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02.9.11
Analysis Shows Quantity of Advanced Imaging Services Declines for First Time in 11 Years
Washington, D.C. – The volume of advanced imaging services delivered to Medicare beneficiaries decreased in 2009 for the first time in 11 years, according to a new analysis by The Moran Company. The study, released today by the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC), a coalition of physician, patient and imaging manufacturer groups, found that while the volume of advanced imaging services decreased by .1 percent, the amount of overall imaging services declined by 7.1 percent.
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01.20.11
FDA Plans to Improve Review Path for Medical Devices
The FDA this week outlined a plan to improve the path to market for medical devices, including streamlining the review for low-risk devices and clarifying when clinical data should be submitted.
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08.4.09
15 Patient Advocacy Groups Write Congress Urging Continued Patient Access to Diagnostic Imaging
As patient advocates who understand how medical imaging improves health outcomes and reduces health care costs, we are deeply concerned that additional unwarranted cuts to medical imaging will hamper our fight against these deadly diseases. Medical imaging is a powerful tool…
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07.29.09
Healthcare Consumers Rally Against Proposed Imaging Payment Changes
Cancer survivors and others with chronic conditions, backed by patient advocacy groups, gathered on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, Wednesday to protest proposed imaging services reimbursement cuts they fear will reduce access to essential diagnostic imaging services, particularly in rural communities…
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07.23.09
Counterproductive Savings on Medical Imaging
The introduction of advanced medical imaging, such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), into the health care arena has allowed physicians to better detect disease, diagnose patients and determine treatment…
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06.18.09
Data: Actual Imaging Use Far Below President’s Rec. 95% Utilization Rate for Medicare
The amount of time imaging equipment is in use in outpatient settings does not approach use rates President Obama and the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) recommend Medicare utilize to calculate reimbursement for imaging, according to data recently…
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