Surgery For Diabetes? CMS Will Look At The Evidence For Coverage
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
In response to media attention focused on bariatric surgery's potential to send diabetes patients into remission, a skeptical CMS said last week that it would consider whether a new national Medicare coverage policy was needed
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