Agency Activities, Revising the Criteria and Process Used by
HCFA to Determine the Coverage of Medical Devices Under Medicare
This page provides links to or copies of materials gathered from federal agencies
involved in the issue. Where applicable, we include such things as regulatory
amendments, proposed new regulations, information about regulatory procedures
and news releases from executive branch agencies. We provide both a link to
the main page of the agency concerned as well as a copy of the pages relating
to the issue that we found in our searches. Because we want to keep information
concerning each of our cases for an archive, we copied their pages during the
period of research. Included with each page title is the original URL from which
we retrieved the information. Note that some of these original URLs may not
work because the group has updated or changed its website.
External Links to:
Internal Archive for the Health Care Financing Administration, downloaded
on 6/18/01:
- Medicare
Announces New Administrative Process for National Coverage Decisions (http://www.hcfa.gov/news/pr1999/pr990422.htm)
- Medicare's
Process for Reviewing Coverage of Benefits (http://www.hcfa.gov/facts/fs990422.htm)
- Health Watch,
June 1999 (http://www.hcfa.gov/publications/newsletters/healthwatch/1999/june99hw.htm)
- Practicing Physicians
Advisory Committee Report #29 (http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/ppac0699.htm)
- HCFA
Announces Members of Three Coverage Advisory Panels (http://www.hcfa.gov/news/pr1999/pr990805.htm)
- HCFA
Names Members of Medicare Coverage Advisory Panels (http://www.hcfa.gov/news/pr1999/pr990910.htm)
- Medicare
will Cover Insulin Pumps for Beneficiaries (http://www.hcfa.gov/news/pr1999/pr990924.htm)
- Minutes
from the MCAC Executive Council Meeting, 12/8/99 (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b1%2Di7.htm)
- Transcript
of the MCAC Executive Council Meeting, 12/8/99 (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b1%2Di3.htm)
- Health Watch,
December 1999 (http://www.hcfa.gov/publications/newsletters/healthwatch/1999/dec99hw.htm)
- Change
Request #565 (http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/transmit/b993260.htm)
- Medicare's
Process for Making Coverage Decisions (http://www.hcfa.gov/facts/fs0005.htm)
- Discussion
Paper for MCAC Executive Committee Meettingouncil Meeting, 3/1/00 (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b1%2Di6.htm)
- Minutes
of the MCAC Executive Committee Meeting, 3/1/00 (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b1%2Di12.htm)
-
Transcript of the MCAC Executive Committee Meeting, 3/1/00 (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b1%2Di8.htm)
- Medicare
Coverage of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Devices (http://www.hcfa.gov/facts/fs000426.htm)
- Medicare
Proposal Will Help Standardize Coverage Decisions for Additional Treatments
(http://www.hcfa.gov/news/pr2000/pr000511.htm)
- Transcript
of the MCAC Executive Council Meeting, 6/6/00 (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b1%2Di13.htm)
-
Medicare Coverage of Urinary Incontinence Therapies (http://www.hcfa.gov/facts/fs001006.htm)
- Advisory
Panel on Ambulatory Payment Classification Group Established (http://www.hcfa.gov/facts/fs001205.htm)
- Medical
Coverage Issues Manual, 12/7/00 (http://www.hcfa.gov/pubforms/transmit/r133cim.pdf)
- Noninvasive
Positive Pressure RADs for COPD Patients, Tracking Sheet (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b3%2Du1.htm)
- Augmentative
and Alternative Communication Devices, Decision Memorandum (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b3%2Ds2.htm)
- Pelvic
Floor Electric Stimulation for Treatment of Urinary Incontinence, Decision
Memorandum (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b3%2Dw4.htm)
- Ultrasound
Stimulation for Nonunion Fracture Healing, Decision Memorandum (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b3%2Dbb2.htm)
-
Balanced Budget Refinement Act, Provisions Related to Medicare Part B
(http://www.hcfa.gov/regs/bbra/title2.htm)
-
Electric Stimulation for Fracture Healing, Decision Memorandum (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b3%2Dj2.htm)
-
Revisions to Payment Policies under the Physicians Fee Schedule (http://www.hcfa.gov/regs/pfs/1120fc.pdf)
-
Analysis and Response to Public Comments (http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/1059f%2Dc.pdf)
- Federal
Register Notice, Criteria for Making Coverage Decisions (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8a1.htm)
- Process
to Identify and Obtain Codes for Items Potentially Eligible for Payment as
New Technologies or Transitional Pass-Troughs Under the Outpatient Prospective
Payment System (http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/2apsnoti.htm)
- Revisions
to Criteria Used to Determine New or Innovative Medical Devices, Drugs, and
Biologicals Eligible for Pass-Through Payments and Corrections to the Criteria
for the Grandfather Provisions for Certain Federally Quallified Health Centers
(http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/1005.pdf)
- Transitional
Pass-Through for Innovative Medical Devices, Drugs, and Biologicals (http://www.hcfa.gov/regs/hopps/1005fcc1.pdf)
- Federal Register,
Prospective Payment System for Hospital Outpatient Services; Interim Final
Rule (http://www.hcfa.gov/medlearn/opps1113.pdf)
- Federal
Register Notice Establishing the MCAC (http://www.hcfa.gov/coverage/8b1%2Db.htm)
Internal Archive for the Office of Management and Budget, downloaded on 6/19/01: