Under the proposed changes, there would be an overall negative reimbursement for the category of items, services and procedures under the Medicare Inpatient Prospective Payment System.
Citing an “overly stringent criteria for new-technology add-on payments,” MDMA said some devices might not meet the cost threshold under the proposal.
Read the MDMA release on medical device payments.
Read the full MDMA comments to CMS (pdf).
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