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Lawmakers Press CMS To Enact MCIT Breakthrough Device Coverage Rule

 
• By Elizabeth Orr

The Medicare rule, which was delayed by 60 days under a broader regulatory freeze, is seen as critical to the reimbursement of innovative devices.

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The US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services should put a new rule that will allow reimbursement for devices on the Food and Drug Administration’s breakthrough device pathway into effect on the original target date of 15 March, four members of Congress said in a recent letter to CMS acting administrator Liz Richter.

The Medicare Coverage for Innovative Technologies (MCIT) final rule, issued on 12 January, allows Medicare to reimburse for breakthrough devices...

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