2nd Draft Of Cures Bill Drops Several Medicare Coverage Measures

By John Wilkerson / May 4, 2015 at 3:35 PM
The latest draft of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Cures bill scraps several Medicare measures from the first iteration, including language on coverage of breakthrough technologies, telemedicine services and disposable medical devices, as well as provisions on add-on payments for new technologies and coding. The device industry lobby is hopeful E&C will reinsert many of the missing pieces and is also upset new coverage language it proposed wasn't included, but some sources suggest the omissions may be due...


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