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E-Stim Treatment For Wound Healing Receives Favorable MCAC Review

This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet

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The Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee's Medical/Surgical Procedures advisory panel stopped short of designating electrostimulation as "breakthrough" technology for the treatment of chronic non-healing ulcers due to a lack of evidence suggesting that the procedure is considered a new standard of care.

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