News and blog posts
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May 2018
In the second half of April, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) published one diagnostic guidance on adjunctive colposcopy technologies for assessing suspected cervical abnormalities, four Interventional Procedure Guidance for robot-assisted kidney transplant, nerve transfer to partially restore upper limb function in tetraplegia, prostate artery embolisation for lower urinary tract symptoms caused by benign prostatic hyperplasia and microinvasive subconjunctival insertion of a trans-scleral gelatin stent for primary open-angle glaucoma, and two new MedTech Innovation Briefings for sleep mask for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular oedema and disinfecting cap for needleless connectors.
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17
May 2018
The cardiothoracic surgery report from the 'Getting It Right First Time' (GIRFT) programme sets out twenty recommendations to improve the way cardiothoracic surgical services are organised and delivered in England.
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16
May 2018
National Institute for Sickness and Disability Insurance (RIZIV/INAMI) reimburses some or all of the non-implantable medical devices provided by the pharmacist or in some cases by a supplier. In May 2018 the list of non-implantable medical devices has been updated.
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15
May 2018
On 26th April, the Italian national agency for regional healthcare, AGENAS, announced that five new HTA documents will be produced for medical technologies during the next months.
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14
May 2018
Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa) has published the DBC product structure and maximum tariffs for specialist medical care for 2019. Healthcare providers and health insurers can start using it for the contract negotiations for 2019. The most important changes include reimbursement for telemonitoring consultation and reimbursement tariffs
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11
May 2018
On the 26th of April of 2018, Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefit Agency (Tandvårds- och läkemedelsförmånsverket, TLV) has published a positive decision for inclusion of Aurum Convex (one-piece range of colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy bags with Manuka honey) into the list of pharmaceutical benefits with the price of its comparators of 48.13 SEK per product.
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10
May 2018
Between 28th of May and 9th of July 2018, SwissDRG will be accepting the requests/suggestions regarding the DRG system in the country.
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09
May 2018
This is an updated version of the National Clinical Guidelines for the Treatment of Brain Metastases published in 2014.
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08
May 2018
The Clinical Coding and Schedule Development Group develops and maintains procedural and diagnostics nomenclature for private payers in England. In March one new code for non-invasive nasal airway remodelling was added to the CCSD Schedule.
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07
May 2018
On the 19th of April of 2018, the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) was able to reassess previously excluded use of extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) in the indication of heel pain in plantar fasciitis on a current scientific basis and decided that ESWT will be used in out-patient settings in the future.
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04
May 2018
In late April 2018, AETSA, the Andalusian Agency for Health Technology Assessment, has published a report with the update of evidence regarding prognostic genomic tests in early breast cancer in Spain.
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03
May 2018
In April of 2018, the National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen) has published a report “Screening for severe combined immune deficiency”, which contains recommendation and assessment basis for the national combined immunodeficiency screening program (SCID).
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