Medicare and Medicaid Programs: Quarterly Listing of Program Issuances

This notice lists CMS Medicare and Medicaid programs:

• manual instructions,
• substantive and interpretive regulations, and
• other Federal Register notices that were published from July 2008 through September 2008.

This notice provides information on national coverage determinations (NCDs) affecting specific medical and health care services under Medicare.

Additionally, this notice identifies certain devices with investigational device exemption (IDE) numbers approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that potentially may be covered under Medicare.

This notice also includes listings of:

• all approval numbers from the Office of Management and Budget for collections of information in CMS regulations and
• a list of Medicare-approved carotid stent facilities.

Included in this notice is:

• a list of the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiovascular Data registry sites,
• active CMS coverage-related guidance documents, and
• special one-time notices regarding national coverage provisions.

Also included in this notice is a list of:

• National Oncologic Positron Emissions Tomography Registry sites,
• Medicare-approved ventricular assist device (destination therapy) facilities,
• Medicare-approved lung volume reduction surgery facilities,
• Medicare-approved clinical trials for fluorodeoxyglucose positron emissions tomography for dementia, and
• Medicare-approved bariatric surgery facilities.

Section 1871(c) of the Social Security Act requires that we publish a list of Medicare issuances in the Federal Register at least every 3 months. Although we are not mandated to do so by statute, for the sake of completeness of the listing, and to foster more open and transparent collaboration efforts, we are also including all Medicaid issuances and Medicare and Medicaid substantive and interpretive regulations (proposed and final) published during this 3-month time frame.