Cook Medical Makes Its Case For Medicare New-Tech Add-On Payments

Cook is seeking add-on payments for its Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent and Zenith AAA endovascular graft in 2013, addressing related CMS questions at a Feb. 14 new-technology “town hall” meeting.

Cook Medical Inc. fielded CMS questions regarding two vascular devices for which the firm is seeking Medicare new-technology add-on payments during a Feb. 14 “town hall” meeting at CMS headquarters in Baltimore.

The Medicare agency is weighing evidence in support of add-on payments in fiscal 2013 for Cook’s Zilver PTX drug-eluting peripheral stent to treat symptomatic vascular disease in above-the-knee femoropopliteal arteries,...

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