AdvaMed Pans CMS Plan To Mandate Publicizing Hospital Rates, But Likes Pay Path For Breakthrough Devices
• By Sue Darcey
AdvaMed took issue with several aspects of a US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) outpatient payment system draft rule mandating that hospitals publicize prices for their surgical procedures and laboratory tests, in comments on the draft. But the medtech industry advocacy group, as well as the Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA), say they support another provision – the agency's new Medicare coverage and payment proposal for breakthrough devices – and requested only minor tweaks to the plan.
AdvaMed has criticized a 2020 Medicare Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposal mandating that hospitals publicly post prices for their 300 most-frequently used procedure costs and lab tests.
The medtech industry advocacy group commented that the transparency plan laid out in the draft OPPS rule issued by...
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