“We want the policy that governs access to healthcare in our country to be informed by the evidence,” supporter Geraldine McGinty, MD, MBA, told Radiology Business.
The American College of Radiology praised the hearing as a potential first step to address inadequate reimbursement levels under the federal payment program.
"This was an unneeded burden, which was solely adding to the administrative hassles of medicine," said American Society of Nuclear Cardiology President Larry Phillips.