Date

07/28/2010

Text to display

N/A

Subject

CMS Updates to Coverage Pages

Content

Posted information for September 22 MEDCAC meeting and updated Bariatric Surgery and Carotid Artery Stenting facility lists. This update also includes a reminder about the CED Session of the AHRQ Annual Meeting.

Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) Meetings

9/22/2010 - On Label and Off-Label Use of Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs)
Posted FR notice, questions to panel and appendix
http://www.cms.gov/mcd/viewmcac.asp?where=index&mid=55

Medicare Approved Facilities/Trials/Registries

Bariatric Surgery
Updated list
http://www.cms.gov/MedicareApprovedFacilitie/BSF/list.asp#TopOfPage

Carotid Artery Stenting Facilities
Posted new facilities
http://www.cms.gov/MedicareApprovedFacilitie/CASF/list.asp#TopOfPage

AHRQ Annual Meeting: CED Session (Wednesday, September 29, 2010)

AHRQ and the Coverage and Analysis Group within the Office of Clinical Standards and Quality at CMS will host a half-day session titled "Understanding the Medicare Coverage With Evidence Development (CED) Loop." Presentations and discussions will focus on how interested investigators can obtain and use CED - generated data for further analysis. Recent CED decisions will be used as examples.

Interested parties can register for this and other sessions at http://meetings.capconcorp.com/ahrq/.