The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Technology Assessment Program develops systematic reviews, health technology assessments, and other reports at the request of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Coverage and Analysis Group. These reports are funded by an Interagency Agreement from CMS to AHRQ and used to inform national coverage policies, discussion at public Medicare Evidence Development and Coverage Advisory Committee (MedCAC) meetings, and/or for other policy considerations.
To get complete public review, the AHRQ
Technology Assessment Program will post draft reports on the AHRQ Technology
Assessment Web site. To meet the timelines for Medicare coverage decisions
mandated by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization
Act of 2003, draft technology assessment reports will be available for public
review for a limited time. A notice will be sent out on the CMS Medicare Coverage
and AHRQ Effective Health Care E-mail distribution lists 1 week before the
posting of draft reports. Each report will be available for public review
on this Web site for a total of 2 weeks.
Review Steps
When a draft Technology Assessment report is available for review, you may review
the draft report by completing the associated review form and then selecting "Submit"
on the form.
Note: Comments received after the review period will not be
accepted.
Currently Available for Review
Quality, Regulation, and Clinical Utility of Laboratory-developed Tests® (PDF
file, 1.6 MB; PDF Help)
Date Available: August 18 - September 8, 2009.
Due to technical difficulties during the start of this review, the review period will be extended to September 8, 2009.
If you have any problems with your submission, please E-mail
your comments along with a statement indicating your acceptance
of the AHRQ Technology Assessment Program Public Review disclosure policy to
tareview@ahrq.hhs.gov.
Thank you.
Questions
Please contact ahrqtap@ahrq.hhs.gov if you have any questions.
Current as of August 2009
Internet Citation:
Call for Public Review. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville,
MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/clinic/ta/tareview.htm
540 Gaither Road Rockville, MD 20850