On April 23, 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced “a new pathway designed ...

CMS and the FDA have launched a new coverage pathway to expedite Medicare access to certain medical devices. The Regulatory Alignment for Predictable and Immediate Device coverage pathway is designed ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) recently published its proposed payment rules for general acute care ...

The release of CMS’s new Innovation Center Strategy isn’t just a change in policy; it’s a profound realignment of the entire patient journey. For decades, the healthcare system operated on a ...

RAPID could enable Medicare coverage and payment as soon as two months after FDA approval, compared to a year or more with ...

Eligible devices could be covered by Medicare as soon as 2 months after market authorizati ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Food and Drug Administration April 23 announced a new pathway to ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have proposed a parallel ...

The FDA and CMS have unveiled the RAPID coverage pathway to align regulatory and coverage processes for breakthrough medical devices, aiming to cut delays for Medicare patients. The initiative enables ...

Enables billing under traditional Medicare and creates a pathway to ~35 million Medicare Advantage beneficiaries through ...

The CMS and the Food and Drug Administration have unveiled a new pathway to speed up Medicare coverage for certain breakthrough medical devices. The pathway, called the Regulatory Alignment for ...