CMS today announced that a heretofore shadowy facet of Medicare's national coverage process is going public: the technology assessments the agency commissions for some of the trickier issues it has under review.
Performed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, these assessments are today public only in a minimalist sense; basic status information is provided, and the final reports ultimately find the light of day. What's new is that CMS will give stakeholders a formal opportunity to comment on the reports in draft form, before they're finalized.
Previous posts have noted the march of transparency across Medicare's national coverage process. Like the listing of potential NCD topics that CMS announced this past summer, today's action marks another step in this same direction, snapping into place an improved component for the increasingly complex Medicare machine.
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