Medtronic InFuse payment docked
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Maximum add-on payment halved to $4,450 upon firm's notification that a single-level fusion requires only one product per procedure. CMS mistakenly believed two InFuse devices were needed, the agency explains in an 1Oct. 6 hospital inpatient prospective payment system correction notice. Medtronic is the first device firm to qualify for the new-tech provision (2"The Gray Sheet" Aug. 4, 2003, p. 6)...