Ann: Market update on recent developments, page-25

Agree that the "more in the coming weeks" news on the VA front hasn't been announced, this could be Philips related and other initiatives too.

Personally, I think the CT LVAS announcement was significantly earlier than expected. If we recall the case for XV LVAS, the alternative route would have been to hope for creation of new CPT CAT codes to be released on the next 1 Jan and effective from the next 1 July (so prob takes around 12 months since we missed last 1 Jan), and then apply and hope we get reimbursement for these codes (about 12 months after codes released). As such, I reckon we are probably 1.5 to 2 years ahead of schedule, than the alternative path on CT LVAS reimbursement. And we've fortunately been designated a code with a very high reimbursement rate (without having to fight for it). Experienced reimbursement team we've got.