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Items Related to Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs)
August 25, 2022
Oral Testimony on FCSO/Novitas Public Meetings on Draft LCD/LCA for Skin Substitutes for the Treatment of DFU/VLU
The Alliance made its voice heard to First Coast Service Option and Novitas by providing oral testimony at the Medicare Administrative Contractors' public meetings to collect stakeholder input on their
draft LCDs
and
LCAs
on Skin Substitutes for the Treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers and Venous Leg Ulcers. One of 15 presenters specifically providing oral comments on these policies, the Alliance reiterated recommendations expressed in its
April comments
and
May comments
, and questioned why no inputs had been addressed. "If First Coast and Novitas were interested in further comments, then releasing a draft policy taking into consideration our already provided comments would have been a more useful exercise," the Alliance said, reminding the MACS of the key focus of our previously submitted comments: Many of the statements and limitations in the policy do not have the scientific evidence to support them, arbitrary utilization parameters, and clinically incorrect information in the policies
May 23, 2015
Comments to First Coast Service Option regarding draft Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for Application of Skin Substitute Grafts for Treatment of DFU and VLU of Lower Extremities (DL36013)
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