CMS announces coverage of colorectal screening testdoi:10.1007/BF03277046Springer International PublishingPharmacoeconomics & Outcomes News
Coverage Changes for Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening Services For CY 2025, based on public input and consultation with specialty societies, and as discussed in the CY 2025 PFS Proposed Rule, CMS proposes to update and expand coverage for CRC screening. As discussed in the CY 2025 PFS Pr...
CMS will continue to include organ acquisition costs for kidney transplants in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) rates, including PACE ESRD rates, and the IME payment phase-out does not apply to PACE capitation amounts. Therefore, for 2025, the ESRD rates for P...
Use of a composite outcome measure of cardiovascular risk, which focused practices on a single clinical tool and outcome rather than discrete measures of hypertension, cholesterol, and diabetes control or broader approaches to care coordination and disease management. This shift may have ...
New Radiation Therapy Guidelines for Prostate Cancer Lowers Treatment Burden and Cost Antibiotics Reduce ICI Efficacy for Patients With Urological Cancers Vedolizumab Induces Remission of Immunotherapy-Related Diarrhea, Colitis Greenwald Celebrates Successes in National Colorectal Cancer Screening Campaign ...
It is unclear why CMS has not expanded the model. Potential challenges include (1) unresolved questions about what should be expanded, given the counterintuitive finding that a model with high participant attrition simultaneously resulted in a substantial effect on mortality; (2) conc...
Advancing health equity for Medicaid beneficiaries by adding colorectal cancer screening to the CMS Adult Core SetMargaret E. Hitchcock PhDBeverly B. Green MDDaniel S. Anderson MD, FACP
It is unclear why CMS has not expanded the model. Potential challenges include (1) unresolved questions about what should be expanded, given the counterintuitive finding that a model with high participant attrition simultaneously resulted in a substantial effect on mortality; (2) co...