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Abbott’s MitraClip receives boost as CMS expands coverage for TMVR

January 20, 2021 By Sean Whooley Leave a Comment

Abbott (NYSE:ABT) announced today that CMS revised its coverage for TMVR, opening up new possibilities for its MitraClip device. The CMS National Coverage Determination (NCD) expands coverage for transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVR) to include patients with secondary (or functional) mitral regurgitation (MR) resulting from heart failure. According to an Abbott news release, the CMS decision […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiac Implants, Cardiovascular, Featured, Medicare, Replacement Heart Valves, Structural Heart Tagged With: Abbott, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), TMVR

Medicare to cover breakthrough devices

January 13, 2021 By Nancy Crotti Leave a Comment

FDA-designated breakthrough devices will have Medicare coverage the same day they are approved, under a final rule issued this week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology (MCIT) rule will provide national Medicare coverage as early as the same day as FDA market authorization for breakthrough devices […]

Filed Under: Featured, Food & Drug Administration (FDA), Medicare, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: AdvaMed, breakthrough device, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), FDA

CMS finalizes coverage updates that increase access to VADs

December 2, 2020 By Sean Whooley

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized policies that increase access to artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices (VADs). In August, CMS proposed the coverage policy updates meant to increase access to VADs and artificial hearts, which represented potentially good news for major VAD makers Abbott (NYSE:ABT)  and Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) and for people with heart failure who […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Medicare, Structural Heart, Vascular Tagged With: Abbott, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medtronic

UK regulators recommend iRhythm cardiac arrythmia device

December 2, 2020 By Sean Whooley

iRhythm Technologies (NSDQ:IRTC) announced that it received a recommendation for adoption from National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). San Francisco-based iRhythm said in a news release that it is the first technology to pass through a new digital health tech pilot, resulting in the successful recommendation for adoption from NICE. The company’s Zio XT […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Medicare, Patient Monitoring, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), iRhythm Technologies Inc., U.K. National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (NICE)

Home dialysis gets a boost from Medicare

November 3, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Medicare will now provide additional coverage for certain home dialysis equipment for patients with chronic kidney failure. The final rule published today encourages the development of new and innovative home dialysis machines. It follows a September announcement of a new model to shift Medicare payments from traditional fee-for-service payments to payments in which providers are incentivized for encouraging the […]

Filed Under: Dialysis, Featured, Medicare Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

CVRx secures reimbursement win from CMS

November 3, 2020 By Sean Whooley

CVRx announced that it received the CMS inpatient new technology add-on payment (NTAP) for its Barostim Neo implantable device. Effective Oct. 1, 2020, and ranging over a three-year duration, Medicare is slated to provide an add-on payment for Barostim Neo worth up to 65% of the device cost (up to a maximum amount allowed of […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Cardiovascular, Medicare, Neuromodulation/Neurostimulation Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CVRx Inc.

ReWalk gains Medicare coverage

October 20, 2020 By Sean Whooley

ReWalk Robotics (NSDQ:RWLK) announced today that it received authorization from CMS as a medicare provider. Marlborough, Mass.-based ReWalk is now able to bill Medicare directly for the procurement of its ReWalk personal exoskeleton for Medicare beneficiaries, thanks to the authorization from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), according to a news release. In July, […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Medicare, Orthopedics, Spine Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), ReWalk Robotics

Medical Alley Association asks CMS to make it easier for breakthrough devices to win coverage

October 6, 2020 By Chris Newmarker

Medtech receiving a breakthrough device designation from FDA should be able to satisfy all of CMS’s non-cost criteria for transitional pass-through payments, according to the Medical Alley Association. The Minnesota-based trade group’s CEO Shaye Mandle made the proposal in comments submitted Sept. 24 in response to a proposed rule from CMS to revise the Medicare […]

Filed Under: Featured, Regulatory/Compliance Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Medical Alley Association, Reimbursement

AdvaMed pushes for Medicare coverage of digital health tech

October 1, 2020 By Nancy Crotti

Medtech trade group AdvaMed today called on the federal government to expand Medicare coverage to digital health technologies. The Medicare statute does not directly address coverage of digital health technologies, nor does it specifically limit or prohibit their coverage. But it doesn’t make Medicare coverage easy, either. Get the full story on our sister site, […]

Filed Under: Digital Health, Featured, Medicare Tagged With: AdvaMed, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), coronavirus, COVID-19, ResMed

Medicare to cover more home dialysis

September 21, 2020 By Sean Whooley

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that it finalized an expansion of its care offerings for patients with chronic kidney disease. CMS completed its end-stage renal disease (ESRD) treatment choices (ETC) model for improving or maintaining the qualityof care and reducing Medicare expenditures for patients with chronic kidney disease, impacting approximately 30% […]

Filed Under: Dialysis, Medicare Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

Myomo lands Medicare coverage

September 16, 2020 By Sean Whooley

Myomo (NYSE:MYO) announced that it received authorization to be a Medicare provider through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. CMS, under the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, now includes Cambridge, Mass.-based Myomo in its Medicare Supplier Directory at Medicare.gov, which enables Myomo to bill Medicare directly when it delivers its MyoPro orthosis in […]

Filed Under: Business/Financial News, Medicare, Prosthetics, Robotics Tagged With: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Myomo Inc, Reimbursement

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