Steve Halasey

January 1, 2001

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Industry Roundtable: In Search of an Earlier Payday

Moderated by Steve Halasey

The litany of complaints that have been heaped on the Medicare coverage, coding, and payment system is no doubt familiar to most U.S. medical device manufacturers. Last September, those industry views were formalized in a report titled The Medicare Payment Process and Patient Access to Technology, which was commissioned by AdvaMed (Washington, DC) and compiled by the Lewin Group (Falls Church, VA).

Not surprisingly, the Lewin Report is highly critical of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA, Baltimore). In some detail, the report builds the industry case against HCFA's operation of the Medicare reimbursement processes, which it says are "complicated and time-consuming, impeding patient access and discouraging innovation of breakthrough technologies."

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