{"id":15022,"date":"2026-08-10T23:19:36","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15022"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:19:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:19:36","slug":"how-cms-is-tackling-coverage-purgatory-for-medical-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=15022","title":{"rendered":"How CMS Is Tackling \u2018Coverage Purgatory\u2019 for Medical Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/08\/cms-medicare-medical-device\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CMS unveiled new details of its new RAPID pathway, which is designed to close the gap between FDA approval and Medicare coverage for breakthrough medical devices. Industry reaction has been largely positive, as medical device companies often sit in \u201ccoverage purgatory\u201d for years.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/08\/cms-medicare-medical-device\/\">How CMS Is Tackling \u2018Coverage Purgatory\u2019 for Medical Devices<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CMS unveiled new details of its new RAPID pathway, which is designed to close the gap between FDA approval and Medicare coverage for breakthrough medical devices. Industry reaction has been largely positive, as medical device companies often sit in \u201ccoverage purgatory\u201d for years. The post How CMS Is Tackling \u2018Coverage Purgatory\u2019 for Medical Devices appeared&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}