New Technology Add-On Payment Criteria (1) Newness Criterion Under the first criterion, as reflected in 412.87(b)(2), a specific medical service or technology will no longer be considered new for purposes of new medical service or technology add-on payments after CMS has recalibrated the MS-DRGs, based on available data, to ( reflect the cost of the technology
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