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Bush vetoes Medicare SGR bill
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
President Bush today followed through on a threat to veto legislation that would eliminate a 10.6% cut in payments to physicians participating in the federal Medicare program, according to a report by the Associated Press.
July 14, 2008
GAO report on overutilization draws industry ire
By Kate Madden Yee
Medical imaging industry groups are criticizing a new report issued this week by the U.S. Government Accountability Office that recommends preauthorization as a means for reducing Medicare spending on medical imaging, which grew nearly 50% in six years.
July 14, 2008
President threatens to veto Medicare bill
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
President Bush has said he intends to veto legislation passed by the Senate that averts Medicare physician pay cuts of 10.6%, according to the American College of Radiology (ACR).
July 13, 2008
Angiotech wins patent stamp of approval in U.K.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Medical device firm Angiotech Pharmaceuticals of Vancouver, British Columbia, received confirmation in the U.K. of the validity of one of its patents related to its paclitaxel stent inventions.
July 9, 2008
Physician pay cuts averted as Senate passes Medicare bill
By Kate Madden Yee
After weeks of impasse, the U.S. Senate on July 9 passed a bill that postpones for 18 months a 10.6% pay cut to physicians for Medicare services. The legislation also includes provisions for the accreditation of imaging providers, a move that radiology advocates believe could help address the growing problem of imaging overutilization.
July 9, 2008
FDA says mammo center defaults on MQSA fine
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says that a chain of radiology centers based in Baltimore is in default on more than $1 million in fines related to violations of the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA).
July 7, 2008
CMS delays Medicare payments due to SGR impasse
By Kate Madden Yee
With Congress unable to pass legislation to change the sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula to avert a July 1 physician pay cut, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will delay processing claims until July 15 at the earliest, according to the American College of Radiology.
June 30, 2008
California doc gets jail time for ultrasound Medicare fraud
By Kate Madden Yee
A California physician was sentenced to 30 months in prison for billing Medicare for ultrasound and other exams that weren't needed or weren't performed, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
June 30, 2008
U.S. House moves to head off SGR cuts
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
The U.S. House of Representatives on June 24 passed a bill that seeks to prevent a 10.6% physician payment cut called for by Medicare's sustainable growth rate formula that is to go into effect July 1, according to the American College of Radiology.
June 24, 2008
Beware, AMIC says: The DRA could be the least of it
By Kate Madden Yee
When Congress passed the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) of 2005, it set in motion legislation that has dramatically affected medical imaging. And the DRA is the least of it, according to Timothy Trysla, who believes that more healthcare reform is coming, and it won't be pretty.
June 9, 2008
House resolution advocates lower pediatric x-ray dose
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
A new resolution has been introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives that seeks to reduce the amount of radiation dose delivered to children from CT and other imaging studies.
May 26, 2008
GE hits SonoSite with second lawsuit
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
Compact-ultrasound technology provider SonoSite of Bothell, WA, said that GE Healthcare filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin on May 22, seeking to invalidate SonoSite's U.S. Patent No. 5,722,412.
May 26, 2008
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