The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) coverage with evidence development (CED) program provides coverage for items and services not meeting Medicare’s “reasonable and necessary” ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) uses coverage determinations to decide how Medicare should cover treatments, services, and items. These rules usually apply nationwide. The CMS ...

The recent decision by the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to cover tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair (T-TEER) could help change the model through which physicians think ...

CMS has approved Medicare and Medicaid coverage for transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement procedures for the treatment of symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation. The procedures will be subject to CMS ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced October 28 that it will cover renal denervation procedures for patients with uncontrolled hypertension. The decision covers two devices ...

On Thursday, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its proposal for covering radiofrequency- or ultrasound-based renal denervation for the treatment of uncontrolled hypertension ...

In December, Edwards Lifesciences persuaded CMS to publish an updated tracking sheet for TAVR national coverage analysis, causing the agency to reconsider its previous stance on covering transcatheter ...

Photo Credit: Adapted from Ruf, TF. Case presentations: T-TEER basic and complex. Presented at: TCT 2023. San Francisco, CA. The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finalized its ...

CMS has proposed Medicare and Medicaid coverage for transcatheter tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair procedures for the treatment of symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation. The procedures would ...

Last week, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) unveiled a proposed program aimed at dramatically accelerating Medicare coverage for ...