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New York. New medical technologies often take 15 months to five years to be made available to Medicare beneficiaries, according to a study by The Lewin Group, a health care policy research firm. Because of the lag time between development and implementation, thousands of Medicare recipients are being denied access to life-saving technologies, according to the report. The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), a trade group for medical device, diagnostic and information system manufacturers, commissioned the report. AdvaMed blames the delays of new treatments on Medicare's complex and time-consuming processes for determining coverage, coding and payment for new technologies. The Health Care Financing Administration said it would respond to the report after reviewing it. |
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