IAMERS is pleased to announce the formation of a Presidential Advisory Committee. In our 21st year, we want to take a fresh look at member needs. We would also like to increase member participation in IAMERS' agenda. Please share your thoughts with the committee. Be a participant in IAMERS. Carolyn Shaw/Northeast Electronics – Chairperson Bill Biddle/BC Technical [...]
Oregon-based radioisotope technology company Northwest Medical Isotopes (NWMI) announced late last week that there are plans to construct a facility for radioisotope production at the University of Missouri-owned Discovery Ridge Research Park in Columbia, Mo. Read more here.
At a May meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council, Medtronic Senior Vice President for Medicine and Technology Stephen Oesterle said that within two decades, his company's biggest competitor will be Google, MassDevice reported. Read more here.
In a corporate reorganization designed to streamline bureaucracy and add $1 billion to its balance sheet, Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser unveiled a new strategic plan at a press conference yesterday, revealing that 16 business units will be reduced to nine, and healthcare will be given a large measure of autonomy to run itself. Read more [...]
A majority of companies will shift from employer-based health coverage to plans sold on the federal marketplace by 2020, according to a new investor report by Standard & Poor Capital IQ, reports McClatchy DC. The report--based on S&P's 500 companies--found that such a change would save a total of $689 billion through 2025. Read more here.
Although hospitals and health systems continue to forge ahead with mergers and acquisitions in an effort to reduce costs and improve care, if history is an indicator, most of these partnerships will fail… Read more here.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services late Wednesday issued a proposed rule for 2015 that reduces payment for readmissions and hospital-acquired conditions, but provides no changes to the controversial two-midnight rule. Read more here.
Medicare code bundling of CT of the abdomen and pelvis results in a large reduction in reimbursements for imaging, according to a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Roentgenology . Read more here.
The Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) convened today and representatives from organizations such as the American College of Radiology and the Lung Cancer Alliance went before the committee to contend for national Medicare coverage of low dose CT (LDCT) screening for patients who are at a high risk for lung cancer. Read [...]
A Medicare panel determined that there is not enough evidence to justify annual CT scans to detect early lung cancer in heavy smokers. The CMS's nine-member Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee voted Wednesday against paying for the screening tool. Read more here.