The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said today it wants to give Medicare patients better access to cutting-edge medical devices, and that it’s willing to pay more for them beginning in fiscal year 2020.
In its proposed rule, CMS said it might pay more for “certain transformative new devices” for inpatients through a new technology add-on payment and raise payments for those devices from 50% of the device cost to 65%.