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In the News
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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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04.26.12
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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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01.12.12
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Press Releases
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12.16.11
Access to Medical Imaging Coalition Calls on Congress to Reject Prior Authorization Proposals for Medical Imaging
The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC) called on Congress today to reject proposals from the radiology benefits management industry to implement prior authorization for outpatient medical imaging in the Medicare program as a means of controlling costs.
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11.3.11
Access To Medical Imaging Coalition And 21 Groups Call On Congress To Oppose RBMS And Payment Cuts To Medical Imaging Services For Seniors
Washington D.C. – The Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC), together with 21 patient advocacy and professional organizations, today urged Congress not to adopt a prior authorization policy and further reimbursement cuts for medical imaging services, stating that both policy changes would negatively impact the delivery of life-saving care to nearly 48 million Medicare beneficiaries.
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10.18.11
New Analysis Finds Lack of Cost Savings and Efficacy Data Associated with Prior Authorization
Policy proposals to adopt prior authorization for advanced medical imaging as a means of controlling utilization would not provide meaningful cost savings, according to a new literature review by The Moran Company. The report, released today by the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition (AMIC), evaluated the cost savings of various proposed imaging policies and found that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is unlikely to score significant savings for these strategies.
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12.16.11
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