Tag: Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed)
AdvaMed makes recs on using AI in health care
May 14, 2024HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – AdvaMed has responded to a request for information from U.S. Rep. Ami Bera, D-Calif., on the use of artificial intelligence in health care. In a letter to Bera, the group outlines measures that could ensure AI is used safely and reliably in health care, including:
Improving policies for access to data sets necessary to develop effective AI algorithms and promote AI innovation.
Expanding FDA’s authorization to permit use of electronic...
AdvaMed disagrees with administration on ‘breakthrough’ technology
September 20, 2021HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – AdvaMed says the administration’s decision to fully repeal a final rule on Medicare Coverage of Innovative Technology is “unfortunate.” In a statement, AdvaMed President and CEO Scott Whitaker said the federal government should be providing incentives to access new breakthrough technologies. “Any Medicare patient and their doctor who has exhausted all existing medical options should have immediate access to FDA-approved breakthrough medical technologies,”...
AdvaMed urges Biden to prioritize transportation of medical equipment
June 23, 2021HME News Staff
WASHINGTON – AdvaMed President and CEO Scott Whittaker has asked President Biden to make the transport of medical supplies and equipment a “top priority” during the current logistics and transport crisis.
“While we appreciate that multiple industries are affected by these disruptions, we believe the implications for the health care system and patient care are imperative as we head into the fall, which brings with it flu season and uncertainty around COVID-19 variants...
Stakeholders push CMS to cover digital health
November 20, 2020Liz Beaulieu, Editor
WASHINGTON - AdvaMed and CapView Strategies make the case for covering digital health technology under the existing DME benefit in a new 56-page white paper titled “Modernizing Medicare Coverage of Digital Health Technologies.”
The groups recommend that CMS create a regulatory pathway under the DME benefit for software or an application that is “primarily and customarily” used to serve a medical purpose but can be used on any device that can satisfy the durability...
AdvaMed launches online platform to boost vent production
May 6, 2020HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) has launched a new platform, www.ventconnect.org, to connect ventilator companies with component suppliers to help scale production and distribution. The platform was developed pro bono with the Aerospace Industries Association, Google and other partners. AdvaMed is a medical technology association representing more than 400 companies. “The medical technology industry is stepping up to meet the unprecedented demand from hospitals...
Bill would formalize LCD process
October 14, 2016Liz Beaulieu, Editor
WASHINGTON - A bill recently introduced in the Senate that seeks to improve how the Medicare Administrative Contractors develop local coverage determinations is more of a message bill when it comes to HME, stakeholders say.
The bill, which would, among other things, require the MACs to disclose their rationale for LCDs, is geared more toward other Part B services, not DMEPOS, AAHomecare's Kim Brummett says.
“There would be some (positive) ramification for DMEPOS,” said Brummett,...
Senators introduce bill to change LCD process
October 5, 2016HME News Staff
WASHINGTON - Two senators recently introduced a bill that seeks to improve the transparency and accountability of the local coverage determination (LCD) process performed by the Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs).
The Local Coverage Determination Clarification Act of 2016 would: require open and public meetings with the MACs that are on the record; require disclosure by the MACs of the rationale for an LCD and the evidence for that decision at the beginning of the process; provide stakeholders...