From Medical Invention to Clinical Practice: The Reimbursement Challenge Facing New Device Procedures and Technology-Part 2: Coverage

Journal of the American College of Radiology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 772-777

  Raab, G Gregory ^a   Parr, David H ^b  

^a Raab and Associates Inc   (United States)

^b C R BARD INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; local coverage determination; Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee; national coverage determination; Technology Advisory Committee

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICARE; PREDICTION; REIMBURSEMENT;

EID: 84928096596     PISSN: 15461440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacr.2006.02.028     Document Type: Article

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