America's Health Insurance Plans Submits Comments on Proposed Rule, Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology
Today AHIP submitted comments on the
The Proposed Rule would establish a new Medicare coverage pathway for FDA-approved breakthrough devices under which national Medicare coverage (both traditional fee-for-service Medicare and Medicare Advantage) would begin on the same day a breakthrough device receives FDA approval and last up to four years.
In our comments, AHIP cited significant concerns that this approach could put seniors, people with disabilities, and the solvency of the
The rule also proposes to codify a modification of Medicare's definition of "reasonable and necessary" to allow for commercial coverage of an item or service to serve as evidence of appropriateness in CMS' "reasonable and necessary" assessment. Our comments raised a number of potential unintended consequences of this proposal and recommend that CMS give additional consideration to these issues before moving forward with the proposal.
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