MEDICARE MANUAL LANGUAGE BARRING COVERAGE OF INVESTIGATIONAL DEVICES IS "INVALID," JUDGE DECLARES; HCFA UNLIKELY TO RECOUP FUNDS PAID TO HOSPITALS IN PAST
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Language in the Health Care Financing Administration's 1986 Medicare manuals barring coverage of investigational devices is void "for failure to comply with the rule-making requirements of the Administrative Procedures Act," Judge John Davies of the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles ruled April 8.