'Sutureless' Surgical Aortic Valves Gain Medicare Bonus Payments
Executive Summary
Edwards LifeScience’s Intuity Elite and LivaNova’s Perceval sutureless valves were granted a $6,000 new technology hospital inpatient add-on payment for fiscal 2018.
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