Medicare Advisors Mostly Favor TAVR Center Volume Thresholds
Executive Summary
The Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee looked at the evidence for procedural volume requirements that hospitals and heart-team members currently must meet to perform transcatheter aortic valve replacements versus the prospect of quality measures as a condition of coverage. The discussion at a meeting held this week will inform the US Medicare agency's ongoing reconsideration of its TAVR coverage policy.