Final Medicare Coverage-With-Evidence-Development Guidance Delayed By CMS Staff Cuts
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
The CMS coverage and analysis group has had to divert its attention from finishing a CED guidance to finalizing proposed changes to the process for awarding Medicare coverage for investigational device trials, primarily due to staff cuts, says Louis Jacques, who heads the group.
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