The RAPID coverage pathway is designed to address the historically significant lag (sometimes referred to as the “valley of death”) between the point at which a medical device receives FDA market ...

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 ...

The Trump administration unveiled a new program to speed up Medicare coverage for breakthrough devices, touting that the new pathway cuts red tape for medical device companies to gain reimbursement.

Certain breakthrough-designated medical devices that receive market authorization will become eligible for Medicare coverage at the same time under a new coverage pathway announced Thursday by the FDA ...

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 US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have introduced the RAPID coverage pathway to shorten delays between market approval and Medicare coverage ...

The Food and Drug Administration designates as “breakthrough” technologies certain drugs and devices. This designation helps expedite the development and review of therapies intended to treat serious ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have proposed a parallel review program to expedite certain Class II and Class III breakthrough ...

Eskandanian is a senior research scientist at MedStar Health Research Institute, program director of the BARDA-funded SPARK for Innovations in Pediatrics, and founding principal investigator of the ...