Pharmaceutical, Healthcare & Life Sciences (Mondaq)
In the face of both substantive and procedural concerns, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") has decided not to adopt significant changes to the Medicare clinical trial national coverage policy that it had proposed on July 19, 2007. Instead, CMS s July 9, 2007 final clinical trial coverage policy stands.

From Information Silo to Bridge, Part 2: Creating a UDI System (Medical Device Link)
As discussed in Part 1 of this article (published in October 2007), FDA is looking to break down the silo mentality that plagues the medical device industry supply chain.