Industry Comments Show Support For MCIT Proposed Rule – With Reservations

AdvaMed, MDMA strongly back the Medicare coverage proposal, but want agency to back off codifying a definition for ‘reasonable and necessary’

Industry groups were cool to parts of the CMS’s proposed Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology (MCIT) rule dealing with commercial insurance coverage, as well as definitions used in the proposal.

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Industry wants the Medicare agency to be more transparent with stakeholders about any new definition of “reasonable and necessary” applied in its MCIT proposal

While comments from AdvaMed and the Medical Device Manufacturers Association expressed strong support for a proposal from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that would allow up to four years of Medicare coverage of Food and Drug Administration-defined breakthrough devices, both groups said commercial insurance coverage decisions should not be used as a template.

Further, both AdvaMed and MDMA want the agency to either back away from defining what should be considered reasonable and...

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