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Add-On Payment Accelerates Commercialization Of NeuroPace’s RNS

The company is focused on expanding the number of centers that use its responsive neurostimulator RNS system to treat seizures in patients with epilepsy, while eyeing other indications. It’s also partnering with the Defense Department on a memory restoration project.

A recently awarded Medicare new-technology add-on payment for NeuroPace Inc.RNS responsive neurostimulator system could provide a major boost to the company’s efforts to bring the anti-seizure therapy to all of the top epilepsy centers in the U.S., CEO Frank Fischer said in an interview.

RNS became the first responsive implantable neurostimulator commercially available in the U.S. in November 2013. FDA approved the device to...

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