The Clinical Coding and Schedule Development Group develops and maintains procedural and diagnostics nomenclature for private payers in England. In June, new codes for laparoscopic pelvic lymphadenectomy, robotic assisted total knee replacement, abdominal (mesenteric) and limb angiogram were added to the CCSD Schedule.
Minister of Health announced that it is planned to re-equip 609 vascular surgery centers. In parallel, about 30 departments will be upgraded to the level of the regional vascular centers, which will increase their capacity. Ministry plans that these efforts will help to double number of primary coronary interventions in acute coronary syndrome in Russia.
On April 24th, during the last meeting of the Interterritorial Council, an agreement was reached to determine 22 new designated reference centers for the treatment of 14 pathologies.
The French National Authority for Health (HAS) published new set of decisions about add-on reimbursement for medical devices in May. They concern pacemakers, orthopedic devices, radiofrequency ablation system, vagus nerve stimulator and some other devices.
At the beginning of June 2018, the Federal Department of Home Affairs published an update of the Services Ordinance (Ordinanza sulle prestazioni, OPre). This update concerns many different fields, including the list of laboratory tests.
At the beginning of June 2018, the Health Technology Evaluation Service of the Basque County, OSTEBA, has published an assessment of effectiveness, safety and indications of radiological bone suppression technology for the detection of lung cancer.
On 8th of June 2018, the company in charge of the development of the DRG system in Switzerland, SwissDRG SA, has announced the catalogue version of Swiss DRG 8.0/2019.
The French National Authority for Health (HAS) published new set of decisions about add-on reimbursement for medical devices in April. They concern orthopedic prostheses, neurostimulators and some other devices.
On 18th of June, 2018, the Federal Department of Home Affairs issued the latest update of the list of medical aids and equipment. This update will come into force on 1st of January, 2019. However, this list will be updated a few times in 2018.
In mid-June 2018, the Spanish Network of Agencies for Assessing National Health System Technologies and Performance (REDETS) has published a report on the efficacy and safety of bariatric surgery in morbidly obese patients.
In the first half of June, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published one new interventional procedure guidance for Intranasal phototherapy for allergic rhinitis and one new medtech innovation briefing for lung volume analysis in emphysema.
On the 5th of June of 2018, Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefit Agency (Tandvårds- och läkemedelsförmånsverket, TLV) has published a decision regarding inclusion of number of Verifine blood lancets produced by Mediq Sverige AB for diabetic patients to monitor the blood glucose levels into the list of pharmaceutical benefits with the price of SEK 23 per package.