Improvements in medicare coverage of new technology

Health Affairs

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 83-85

  Tunis, Sean R ^a   Kang, Jeffrey L ^b  

^a Centers Medicare and Medicaid Serv   (United States)

^b Off of Clin Standards and Quality   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MASS COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MEDICARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035459755     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.20.5.83     Document Type: Article

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2. Title XVIII, The Social Security Act of 1965, sec. 1862(a)(1)(A).
3. Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, 21CFR 807.81.
4. Federal Register 63, no. 239 (14 December 1998): Notices, 68780.
5. Federal Register 64, no. 80 (27 April 1999): Notices, 22619-22625.
6. Medicare contractors are the local insurance companies under contract to the Medicare program to pay claims.
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