NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iCAD, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICAD), a leading provider of advanced imaging and radiation therapy for the early identification and treatment of cancer, today announced the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued an improved payment policy for Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT), which is delivered by the Company’s Xoft® Axxent® Electronic Brachytherapy System®. In the 2013 Final Rule issued November 1, 2012, CMS unpackaged the IORT payment codes and assigned a distinct payment value for IORT treatment delivery. CMS assigned IORT treatment delivery to the same ambulatory payment classification as Stereotactic Radiosurgery, MRgFUS and MEG, Level 1.
