It’s Official: CMS Repeals MCIT Rule, Leaves Door Open For Alternatives

Agency also scraps “reasonable and necessary” definition

Despite industry efforts to save what it viewed as a boon to breakthrough medical technology, US Medicare has repealed the Medical Coverage for Innovative Technologies (MCIT) rule. In a more favorable move for industry, the agency scrapped a controversial qualifying definition for coverage eligibility.

REPEALED SIGN
• Source: Alamy

After a tug of war between industry and patient advocacy groups, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has finally pulled the plug on a Trump-era proposal that was championed by industry as a means for getting potentially life-saving technologies to more patients.

The Medical Coverage for Innovative Technologies (MCIT) rule, designed as a shortcut to speed up the coverage approval process, would...

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