Life Science Reimbursement and Policy Frontiers

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Last activity: 16.10.2012

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Ed Berger, Principal and Founder of life sciences consultancy Larchmont Strategic Advisors, shares his current thoughts on emerging issues in life sciences reimbursement and related public policies.

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Mar 24, 2011	Medicare: Best practices don’t ensure coverage for Medtronic’s new pacemaker	My last post dealt with the misinterpretation by many industry news outlets of a CMS policy change for coverage of MRIs when the patient has an implanted pacemaker or ICD. The new policy was widely reported as a rejection of coverage for st...
Mar 8, 2011	Is Medicare unsafe for Medtronic’s MRI-safe pacemaker?	Medtronic announced February 8 FDA approval of the Revo MRI SureScan pacing system, described as “the first and only pacemaker in the U.S. specifically designed for use in an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) environment.” In describing the ...
Feb 7, 2011	The power of HIT	The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services just announced that the selection of five organizations to participate in a demonstration project designed, under a 2008 Congressional mandate (PDF), to encourage more efficient utilization of ...
Jan 20, 2011	Medicare value-based purchasing: Get ready for the new day	Health care newsletters and the policy blogosphere have been buzzing for a week or more over the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services publishing a proposed rule (PDF) for implementation of inpatient hospital value-based purchasing for...
Sep 24, 2010	FDA-CMS parallel review: Charm offensive or meaningful change?	As regular readers of MassDevice.com already know, the Sept. 17, 2010, Federal Register contained a request for comments on a proposal to initiate parallel review of medical products by the Food & Drug Administration and the Centers for...
Sep 9, 2010	Four (really 3) ways to control healthcare spending	All three rationalization strategies do have a common dependence upon adoption and utilization of advanced health information technology tools, whether for practice management, sharing of patient records and service information across pract...
Sep 9, 2010	Four ways to control healthcare spending	Labor Day is swiftly receding in the rear view mirror, a potentially transformative (or at least disruptive) mid-year election is only eight weeks away, and Medicare payment regulations for FY 2011 start to go live (acute inpatient hospital...
Jul 12, 2010	FDA-CMS data-sharing deal may mean less than meets the eye	The Food & Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services signed a Memorandum of Understanding June 23 intended to promote data-sharing between the two agencies. Announcement of the MOU came from Center for Devic...
Jul 6, 2010	Organogenesis, Advanced Biohealing stand to benefit from CMS proposal	Organogenesis Inc. and Advanced BioHealing Inc. may win a new reimbursement code for their skin regenerating systems. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposed temporary, updated coding for artificial skin products in treating...
Jun 25, 2010	Pouring gasoline on the healthcare policy fire	As reported on this website, the U. S. House of Representatives has signed on to an additional six month "fix" for the unacceptable 21 percent reduction in Medicare physician reimbursements required under current law. So ends yet ...
Jun 9, 2010	VCs: Healthcare reform won’t impede med-tech investment	Readers of this website, and this blog, are likely to have a special interest in the business impacts of healthcare legislative and regulatory initiatives. But when those initiatives are complex, with major societal implications and long im...
Apr 1, 2010	Berwick’s appointment a boon for medical device makers?	If you’ve been studying the contents of the recently passed healthcare reform legislation, and you’ve looked in vain for the elements that emphatically implement systemic cost control and improvements in quality of care, President Barack Ob...
	Four (really 3) ways to control healthcare spending	Labor Day is swiftly receding in the rear view mirror, a potentially transformative (or at least disruptive) mid-year election is only eight weeks away, and Medicare payment regulations for FY 2011 start to go live (acute inpatient hospital...

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