The Medical Imaging and Technology Alliance (MITA) has awarded U.S. Rep. Bill Flores of Texas its 2016 Innovation Award for, among other things, his role in securing a two-year suspension of the Affordable Care Act’s medical device tax. And a local TV station has brought the development to its community.
After accepting a plaque in front of a new CT scanner at CHI St. Joseph Health in Bryan, Texas, Flores told KBTX-TV that the provider institution “is on the leading edge, particularly when it comes to imaging technology, and they and their suppliers would have had more difficulty getting these new life-saving technologies here in our local community if we hadn’t been able to get the tax suspended.”
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