Medicare Payment Reform for Skin Substitutes: Ensuring Access and Lowering Costs.

This law changes how Medicare pays for advanced skin substitute products used to treat chronic, non-healing wounds, such as diabetic foot ulcers. The goal is to curb rising Medicare costs by standardizing payments and ensuring that all safe and effective wound care products are covered equally. This reform aims to guarantee stable access to these necessary therapies for Medicare beneficiaries while allowing doctors to choose the best product based on patient needs, not price incentives.