Trans-Mitral Valve Repair Gains Medicare Coverage-With-Evidence Proposal

A new draft national Medicare coverage policy offers to pay for transcatheter mitral valve repair procedures with devices like Abbott’s MitraClip only if they are conducted by a qualified heart team and are part of a national registry.

CMS is proposing to provide Medicare coverage for transcatheter mitral valve repair under a coverage-with-evidence-development policy.

A May 15 draft decision memo

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