President Barack Obama's proposed fiscal 2014 budget is already drawing strong opposition from the med tech industry. Among the points of conflict: proposed payment reductions for clinical lab services and durable medical equipment in Medicaid, and a possible prior authorization requirement for advanced imaging of Medicare patients. AdvaMed president and CEO Stephen Ubl said in a statement that the measures, if adopted, "will chill continued medical innovation affecting current and future Medicare beneficiaries," and also harm patients by toughening access to "life-saving, life-enhancing medical technology." The Medical Imaging & Technology Alliance, or MITA, took issue with the imaging authorization proposal, which it said has previously been acknowledged by the Office of Management of Budget as a measure that "will yield no savings." AdvaMed release | MITA statement