Healthcare Costs

Society of Nuclear Medicine requests action to alter DRA provision for imaging payment caps

Published in Medical Device Law Weekly, December 24th, 2006

As a member of the Access to Medical Imaging Coalition, SNM joined 75,000 physicians in asking Congress to reconsider the deep cuts made in medical imaging services for Medicare beneficiaries as part of the federal Deficit Reduction Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 2005.

SNM, an international scientific and professional organization of more than 16,000 physician, technologist and scientist members, opposes a provision in the act-payment caps to physicians' offices with imaging equipment-that is set to begin Jan. 1, 2007.

"The proposed reductions for diagnostic imaging reimbursement fail to recognize the fundamental differences between the costs...

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Source: Medical Device Law Weekly (2006-12-24)

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