Tag: CMS

experience

New data underscore physician experience levels required to derive benefit from...

Data from a new study that maps out the levels at which ad­verse postoperative events decrease following transfemoral carotid artery stenting (TfCAS) based on...
Detour

US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services grants Transitional Pass-Through payment...

Endologix recently announced that the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has granted a Transitional Pass-Through (TPT) payment for the Detour system,...
IVL

CMS creates new codes that establish specific payment for IVL performed...

Shockwave Medical has announced that as part of the calendar year 2021 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule, the Centers for...

Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders opposes payment cuts for physician and...

In its comments submitted to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) in early October, the Alliance of Wound Care Stakeholders voiced its...

CMS assigns APC code for MolecuLight’s i:X procedure for bacterial imaging...

MolecuLight has announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has assigned an Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) code 5722 for the MolecuLight...

Shockwave Medical announces that CMS has created new codes for intravascular...

Shockwave Medical announced today that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued new codes for intravascular lithotripsy (IVL) procedures performed in...

COVID-19: CMS outlines recommendations for restarting non-emergent procedures

On 18 March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recommended “limiting non-essential care and expanding surge capacity into ambulatory surgical centres and...

CMS approves coverage for PQ Bypass TORUS 2 IDE trial

PQ Bypass announced today that it has received approval for coverage from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for the Investigational Device...

CMS drug-coated balloon reimbursement code to expire in December

December 2017 will mark an important change in to US Medicare reimbursement for drug-coated balloons (DCBs) which could create an access barrier to DCB...