Four Firms Vie For Medicare 2014 New-Tech Add-On Payments
Executive Summary
CMS held its annual new-technology Town Hall February 5, hearing from applicants for a drug-eluting peripheral artery stent, a neurostimulator system for epilepsy seizures, a transcatheter mitral valve repair system and a retinal prosthesis system.
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