NICE reschedules DES coverage meeting
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
UK's National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) appraisal committee meeting to consider whether to move forward with preliminary recommendations that the National Health Service of England and Wales stop paying for drug-eluting stents, originally scheduled for Sept. 4, is rescheduled to Nov. 6 to allow conferees time to consider information from recently available economic models. The medical community in Britain is strongly opposing NICE's preliminary appraisal, making it more likely that the final policy will be toned down (1"The Gray Sheet" Sept. 3, 2007, p. 3)...