"I think CMS would like to get more of an early indication of what's in the pipeline, " says Collins.

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"I think what CMS did here was to buy stability for the program, " said Dan Mendelson, president of the market analysis firm Avalere Health.

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Every quarter those have to be updated too, I used to download from CMS and do that.

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