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Molecular Imaging secures financing
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET services provider Molecular Imaging Corporation of San Diego has secured a $3.2 million asset-based finance facility provided by Meridian Commercial Healthcare Finance.
May 13, 2003
Aetna adds Given Imaging to reimbursement list
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Video-capsule manufacturer Given Imaging of Yoqneam, Israel, has received a national coverage policy decision from U.S. healthcare insurance firm Aetna.
April 28, 2003
Toronto imaging gears up for SARS aftermath
TORONTO - Canadian health officials are already expressing confidence that they’ve seen the worst of the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome. But the region’s health system -- including hard-pressed imaging departments at local hospitals -- faces the monumental task of getting back to normal.
April 28, 2003
flexScan to finance Memorial Health scanner
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Capital equipment financer flexScan will provide and finance a new GE Medical Systems LightSpeed 16-slice CT unit for Long Beach, CA-based Memorial Health Services’ Saddleback Memorial Medical Center.
April 21, 2003
Acusphere gets financing for development
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Ultrasound contrast developer Acusphere has completed a $20 million private financing round.
April 20, 2003
Toronto SARS outbreak throws routine imaging into turmoil
TORONTO - Earlier this year, the Canadian government bestowed $1 billion (U.S.) on the radiology community for the purchase of new and updated imaging equipment. But the current outbreak of SARS in the Toronto area has many radiologists wishing they had access to those new scanners right now.
April 17, 2003
U.S. PET backers win some, lose some
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
PET proponents got good news and bad on the reimbursement front this week, with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announcing that it will begin Medicare reimbursement coverage for some new indications, but that others aren't ready for prime time.
April 16, 2003
CMS sets date for expanded MRA coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said Wednesday that its expansion of coverage for new MR angiography applications will go into effect on July 1.
April 16, 2003
U.S. to expand MRA coverage
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
An expansion in insurance reimbursement is in the works for MR angiography of the abdomen and pelvis, according to a decision memo issued Tuesday by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
April 15, 2003
Imaging centers offer solution to hospital economic pressures
By Brian Casey
Hospital radiology departments can successfully address economic pressures by sending outpatient imaging studies to freestanding imaging centers, without any decrease in quality of service. That’s the opinion of imaging economics expert Dr. Thomas Dehn, who spoke on the topic at a conference this week in Philadelphia.
April 3, 2003
Insurance companies accused of fraud
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Insurance regulators in Florida and Oregon have shut down several companies that were allegedly selling bogus malpractice insurance policies.
April 1, 2003
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CMS to determine additional PET reimbursement
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has published a new tracking sheet announcing the acceptance for five formal requests for a National Coverage Determination (NCD) on the use of FDG-PET imaging for brain, cervical, pancreatic, small cell lung, and testicular cancers.
February 27, 2003
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