Tag: medicaid

New CMS reimbursement code “severely underpays” for drug-coated balloons

Drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty devices have been categorised by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) into the same billing code as...

Higher failure to rescue rates for open aortic surgery in hospitals...

As the US Congress debates funding Medicaid and the uninsured, a new vascular study finds that hospitals with a high ratio of those two...