CMS To Examine Clinical Benefit, Cost When Creating New OPPS Categories
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services is asking manufacturers to provide examples of medical technologies for which transitional "pass-through" payments might be appropriate even if the device itself does not provide an obvious improvement in beneficiary outcomes over existing technologies
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