HCFA Coverage Decisions Don't Set Unreasonably High Bar For Data - Tunis
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The Health Care Financing Administration has in the past given favorable coverage decisions to technologies that don't have the strongest possible evidence supporting their use, HCFA Coverage and Analysis Group Director Sean Tunis, MD, told attendees of the agency's May 3 Educational Symposium on Evidence-Based Medicine in Baltimore.
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