Peripheral vascular interventions

French National Authority for Health (HAS) released new decisions about add-on and medical aid reimbursement of medical devices from the meetings of the National Commission for Evaluation of Medical Devices and Health Technologies (CNEDiMTS) in August 2017. They include different types of stents and stent-grafts for multiple indications (coronary, peripheral vascular), mechanical thrombectomy devices for stroke, medical devices applied for treatment of ulcer of venous origin, remote monitoring for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Systems (ICDS).

There is an ongoing process to change the structure of add-on reimbursement for peripheral vascular stents in France. In July 2017 CNEDiMTS issued additional clarifications about proposed reimbursement requirements for stents and stent-grafts. Read about proposed changes in our post.

Report provides overview of procedure coding, payment mechanism, reimbursement tariffs and policy considerations for mechanical and pharmacomechanical (AngioJet, Boston Scientific) thrombectomy, catheter-directed and ultrasound-enhanced catheter-directed (EKOS, BTG) thrombolysis in iliac, femoral and popliteal veins in 11 European countries.

This post presents an extract from our reimbursement analysis for angioplasty of arteries of lower extremities with stenting using bare metal and drug-eluting stents for peripheral arterial disease in England, France and Germany. Procedure is reimbursed via combination of diagnosis-related group (DRG) and add-on reimbursement in England and France and solely via DRG in Germany.

Ministerial decree to enlist Medtronic's IN.PACT Admiral for the LPPR title V for add-on reimbursement was published on 6th of May 2017 in the Official Journal of French Republic. This is not only the first peripheral DCB on the List, but one of the first invasive non-implantable devices to get add-on reimbursement in France.

This post presents an extract from our reimbursement analysis for angioplasty of arteries lower extremities using plain and drug-coated balloons (DCBs) for peripheral artery disease in England, France and Germany. Plain balloon angioplasty is reimbursement via DRG solely and DCBs are reimbursement via combination of DRG and add-on reimbursement.