AdvaMed Wants Health Delivery Methods To Reward New Technology
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS should keep new medical technologies in mind as it develops new health care delivery and payment modalities called for in the recently enacted health care reform law, AdvaMed says
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