sábado, 23 de julio de 2016

MEDCAC Meeting 7/20/2016 - Lower Extremity Chronic Venous Disease

MEDCAC Meeting 7/20/2016 - Lower Extremity Chronic Venous Disease

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Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC) Meetings
7/20/2016 - Lower Extremity Chronic Venous Disease
     Posted scoresheet from meeting
https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/details/medcac-meeting-details.aspx?MEDCACId=72

On July 20, 2016, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will convene a panel of the Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MEDCAC).  The MEDCAC panel will examine the scientific evidence underpinning the benefit and risk of existing lower extremity chronic venous disease treatments that aim to improve health outcomes in the Medicare population.  This meeting will also identify evidence gaps that exist related to lower extremity chronic venous disease.
Clinical outcomes of interest to the Medicare program include: reduction in pain; reduction in edema; improvement in functional capacity; improvement in quality of life; avoidance of acute and chronic venous thromboembolism; avoidance of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension; avoidance of initial venous skin ulceration and recurrent ulceration; improvement in wound healing; reduction in all-cause mortality; and avoidance of repeat interventions and harms from the interventions.   
By voting on specific questions, and by their discussions, MEDCAC panel members will advise CMS about the extent to which it may wish to use existing evidence as the basis for any future determinations about Medicare coverage for interventions related to lower extremity peripheral venous disease.  MEDCAC panels do not make coverage determinations, but CMS often benefits from their advice.

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