It takes a real grown-up government agency to admit when it has bungled the job, or maybe it just takes a good thrashing in the court of public opinion. Of course, there are government agencies that simply mumble into their coffee mugs about "fixing the problem," assuming they acknowledge their stumbles in the first place. Let's take a moment to look at two rather peculiar stories about government agencies that have appeared recently in Medical Device Daily. CMS walks back from the precipice We all remember the story about a recent decision by a Medicare administrative contractor (MAC) to not...