- The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) approves a new technology add-on payment for C.R. Bard's (BCR) Lutonix Drug-Coated Balloon (DCB) under the Medicare hospital inpatient prospective payment system to help cover additional costs incurred by hospitals treating Medicare beneficiaries with the product. The maximum add-on payment, which will go into effect on October 1, will be $1,036 when DCBs are used for inpatient peripheral procedures and the total device costs exceed the allowance under existing DRG reimbursement.
- The Lutonix 035 DCB is an angioplasty balloon coated with a therapeutic dose of paclitaxel.
- Update: CMS approves a maximum add-on payment of $1,035.72 for Medtronic's (MDT -0.7%) IN.PACT Admiral DCB.