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| Medicare Announces Clinical Trial Policy The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced October 17, 2007 that it has decided to make no change to the clinical trial policy (CTP) national coverage determination (NCD) issued on July 9, 2007, at this time, and is not imposing additional conditions for coverage. |
| 2008 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System SVS recently commented on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (“CMS”) Medicare hospital outpatient prospective payment system (“OPPS”) and ambulatory surgical center payment system (“ASC”) proposed rule for calendar year 2008. Click here to view letter |
| CMS Proposed Decision Memorandum Regarding Clinical Research Policy SVS recently commented on reconsideration of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Proposed Decision Memorandum regarding Clinical Research Policy. Because CMS received so many concerns during the initial comment period, the agency made clarifications to the memo and allowed organizations to again provide comments. These included clarification of "Usual Patient Care" as both routine clinical services and the clinical intervention/services under investigation, with identification of both as covered by Medicare under the clinical research benefit. Click here to view entire letter.  |
| SVS Comments On The Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System And FY 2008 SVS commented on the proposed changes to the hospital inpatient prospective payment system and FY 2008 rates, specifically the MS-DRGs for "Major Cardiovascular Procedures". |
| Final Decision On CMS Coverage For Carotid Stenting On April 30, 2007 the CMS Coverage and Analysis Group posted their Final Decision for the year regarding Medicare coverage for Carotid stenting with embolic protection. |
| National Provider Identifier (NPI) Rule Effective May 23, 2007 As part of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) of 1996, an NPI is required for all “covered entities”, which include health care providers who conduct transactions in electronic form, health care clearinghouses and health plans. NPIs will need to be used by covered entities on all HIPAA covered transactions that call for health care provider identifiers to be in compliance with this rule, which is effective on May 23, 2007. |
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