Ex-CMS Louis Jacques On Partnering With FDA And Keeping It Local

In this second portion of a two-part Q&A with Louis Jacques, he talks to “The Gray Sheet” about the importance of CMS’ growing collaboration with FDA, tensions between national and local Medicare coverage policymaking and the impact of resource constraints on CMS. Jacques left his post as CMS coverage director last month.

Louis Jacques had been with CMS for more than 10 years when he left the agency last month. But in the latter part of his tenure as CMS’ director of coverage and analysis, he also spent a lot of his time at the offices of FDA.

Jacques was a central player in the launch of the FDA-CMS parallel review program for medical devices in 2011, and...

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