Medicare officials defend local coverage policies. (Inequities and Inefficiencies).
Publication: Skin & Allergy News
Publication Date: 01-JUL-03
Author: Frieden, Joyce
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BALTIMORE -- Federal agencies disagree about whether Medicare should continue to have two types of coverage policies: local coverage decisions that affect only a certain geographic area, and national coverage decisions that affect beneficiaries nationwide.
Representatives of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services tout the value of having two types of decisions.
"If your [scientific] evidence is not mature, it's better to go local," said Dr. Stephen Phurrough of CMS' Office of Clinical Standards and Quality said at a meeting sponsored...
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