CMS is soliciting nominations for a total of 42 voting and nonvoting members of the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC), which advises CMS on the adequacy of scientific evidence available to CMS for Medicare “reasonable and necessary” determinations. Nominations must be received by September 24, 2012. CMS also is seeking nominations for

CMS has announced a series of Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) meetings to address specific Medicare coverage issues. MedCAC is meeting October 21, 2009 to focus on the use of catheter ablation for the treatment of atrial fibrillation.  On November 18, 2009, MedCAC will address the adequacy of the available evidence

CMS has postponed until June 17, 2009 a Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) meeting on the use of Bayesian statistics to interpret evidence in making coverage decisions. Bayesian analysis is a statistical technique in which prior evidence is used to update or to newly infer the probability that a hypothesis may be true. CMS