Submitted evidence should have included both a description of relevant clinical studies that demonstrated the service furnished by telehealth to a Medicare beneficiary improves the diagnosis or treatment of an illness or injury or improves the functioning of a malformed body part, including dates and findings, and a list and copies of published peer-reviewed articles relevant to the service when furnished via telehealth
To identify the numerator of the estimation percentage (that is, the total number of units purchased under the 340B Program for an NDC-9), CMS proposes to use data from HRSA's Prime Vendor Program (PVP)
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We believe that using FSS data to calculate the payment limit for DCAPS drugs is preferable to instructing MACs to determine DCAPS drug payment limits according to invoice (as discussed below), because invoice-based pricing requires MACs to manually process claims and is therefore burdensome to the MACs