Pacific Edge Medicare coverage extended, uncertainty remains

News that Pacific Edge won’t lose Medicare Insurance until April is good news but no guarantee of a reprieve, analysts say.  “Although this delay is positive, we think a fair base case is that [Pacific] PEB will lose coverage, given that Novitas has considered PEB’s case for retention of insurance coverage twice over a period of around two years, and still chosen to remove it (we think wrongly,)” said Craigs Investment Partners research analyst Rob Morrison. US medicare administrative contractor Novitas this mo...