Four Firms Vie For Medicare 2014 New-Tech Add-On Payments

CMS held its annual new-technology Town Hall February 5, hearing from applicants for a drug-eluting peripheral artery stent, a neurostimulator system for epilepsy seizures, a transcatheter mitral valve repair system and a retinal prosthesis system.

Four device companies seeking Medicare hospital inpatient new-technology add-on payments for fiscal 2014 made pitches to CMS February 5 on how their technologies represent a substantial clinical improvement.

CMS held its annual new-technology Town Hall at its Baltimore headquarters to hear presentations from Cook Medical Inc. for...

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