Medicare CED Update Targets Study ‘Efficiency,’ But May Not Ease Data Collection Burden
Executive Summary
It's not clear that the proposed revisions and additions to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ existing coverage with evidence development study design requirements would address what some experts view as a program failure – the fact that sponsors of the vast majority of technologies subject to CED have not generated the data CMS is looking for.
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