Sentence examples for coverage decision from inspiring English sources

The federal Medicare program leaves the coverage decision to the nearly 20 regional insurers that oversee payments to physicians.

A national coverage decision on CyberKnife is not currently in the works, according to a Medicare spokesman, Donald E. McLeod.

To answer this question, the authors of the new study reviewed the discharge records of more than 20,000 Medicare patients who underwent bariatric surgery before and after the national coverage decision.

Any time a managed care official "inappropriately makes a decision, then all of a sudden it's not a medical decision, it's a coverage decision," complained Connie Barron, associate director of legislative affairs for the Texas Medical Association, in Austin, Tex.

Yes, Medicare patients who had bariatric surgery after 2006 tended to do better, confirming a common belief that the C.M.S. coverage decision contributed to the improvement in outcomes and general upsurge in quality of care.

Full Coverage: Decision 2010.

But coverage decision-making, and the HTA that informs it, are also inherently political.

The structural equation model was among the first applications of PLS-PM to coverage decision-making.

All over the world coverage decision-makers are developing procedures to prioritize healthcare spending.

The search identified two publications but none of them dealt with coverage decision-making.

However, no distinct explanatory variables have been suggested for coverage decision-making in the literature.