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Coverage

Medicare Coverage News

11/29/06 AdvaMed Comments on AHRQ Draft Handbook on Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
10/19/06 CMS Posts New Information on Council on Technology and Innovation
10/17/06 AHRQ Issues Draft Handbook on Registries for Evaluating Patient Outcomes
10/06/06 AdvaMed Submits Comments on Coverage with Evidence Development Revised Guidance
08/11/06 AdvaMed Submits Comments on Clinical Trials Policy Reconsideration
07/12/06 CMS Releases Revised CED Guidance Document
07/11/06 CMS Reconsiders Clinical Trials Coverage Policy
06/21/06 AdvaMed Submits Comments on Evaluation of LCDs for NCD Process
04/25/06 AdvaMed Submits Comments on HCPCS Process
04/11/06 CMS Issues Final Guidance Documents of Initiating NCD's and External Technology Assessment Referrals
02/22/06 AMA Signs Working Agreement with Key Congressional Committee Chairmen to Develop Quality Measures
02/22/06 CMS Issues NCD on Bariatric Surgery Procedures
02/06/06 Administration Releases FY 2007 Budget
01/11/06 AdvaMed's Comments to the Department of Health & Human Services' “Listening Session” on the research priorities for the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's Effective Health Care Program

 

MedCAC (Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee/formerly MCAC)

10/22/07 AdvaMed MedCAC Remarks on CMS Evidentiary Priorities
12/15/06 CMS Re-Charters the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee


 

Relevant Laws

Benefits Improvement and Protection Act (BIPA) of 2000 (PL 106-554)
Medicaid (Title XIX of the Social Security Act)
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Medicare Law (Title XVIII of the Social Security Act)
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