SCMR Regional Working Group: United States

2/8/2019

8:00 AM - 9:25 AM

Location: Grand C

Regional Working Group Speaker(s)

Tim Albert, MD

Medical Director
Tanner Health System
Bradley Artel, MD

Medical Director of Utilization Management
Aetna Healthcare, Inc
Victor Ferrari, MD, FSCMR

Professor of Medicine and Radiology/Chair, Penn CV Imaging Council
University of PA Medical Center
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James Goldfarb, PhD

MR Physicist
Saint Francis Hospital
Edward Martin, MD

Director of Cardiovascular MRI
Oklahoma Heart Institute
Ibrahim Saeed, MD, FSCMR

Director of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
Orlando Simonetti, PhD

Professor
The Ohio State University

8:00 AM - 8:10 AM
Welcome
Edward T. Martin, MD – Oklahoma Heart Institute
8:10 AM - 8:25 AM
Nuts and bolts of the US Medicare reimbursement system
Victor A. Ferrari, MD, FSCMR – University of PA Medical Center; Orlando P. Simonetti, PhD – The Ohio State University
8:25 AM - 8:40 AM
CMR utilization trends in the US
James W. Goldfarb, PhD – Saint Francis Hospital
8:40 AM - 8:55 AM
The CMR business model
Tim Albert, MD – Tanner Health System; Ibrahim M. Saeed, MD, FSCMR – Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
8:55 AM - 9:10 AM
CMR from the private payer perspective
Bradley J. Artel, MD – Aetna Healthcare, Inc
9:10 AM - 9:25 AM
Panel discussion