Final Coverage-With-Evidence-Development Guidance Delayed By CMS Staff Cuts-thegraysheet: Staff cuts at CMS tied to the federal sequester are to blame for the agency’s delay in issuing a final coverage-with-evidence-development guidance document; industry has been anticipating the final policy since a draft document was released a year ago. A question that Louis Jacques, director of the coverage and analysis group at CMS gets a lot of lately is, “What’s going on with CED?”
