CMS Should Create New Roadmap For Breakthrough Technologies, Trade Group Urges
Executive Summary
The Medical Device Manufacturers Association wants the US Medicare agency to come up with a new rule for implementing a coverage pathway for breakthrough devices by June 2022.
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