Medicare Program; Town Hall Meeting on the Fiscal Year 2011 Applications for New Medical Services and Technologies Add-on Payments and Informational Workshop on the Application Process and Criteria for New Medical Services and Technologies Add-on Payments

摘要

This notice announces a Town Hall meeting to discuss fiscal year (FY) 2011 applications for add-on payments for new medical services and technologies under the hospital inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS). Interested parties are invited to this meeting to present their comments, recommendations, and data regarding whether the FY 2011 new medical services and technologies applications meet the substantial clinical improvement criterion. Additionally, this notice announces an Informational Workshop for all interested parties on the application process and criteria for new medical services and technologies under the IPPS and on the outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) transitional pass-through payment for drugs, biologicals, and devices and new technology Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC) assignment for new services application processes.