CMS Clarifies Criterion To Evaluate New Tech Add-On Payments In Inpatient Rule
Executive Summary
The US Medicare agency revised and clarified its policies on how it evaluates new technology add-on payments and highlighted its new policy on payments for FDA-approved breakthrough devices, in a final 2020 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) rule released on 5 August.
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