CMS Should Create New Roadmap For Breakthrough Technologies, Trade Group Urges

The Medical Device Manufacturers Association wants the US Medicare agency to come up with a new rule for implementing a coverage pathway for breakthrough devices by June 2022.

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• Source: Alamy

With the Medicare Coverage for Innovative Technologies (MCIT) rule on the block, industry is trying to stop the ax from falling.

The program has been overwhelmingly welcomed by the medical device industry and seen as way of cutting through red tape to get innovative treatments to more patients faster. And in a recent letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), trade organization AdvaMed urged the agency not to repeal MCIT

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