Osiris Receives Medicare Reimbursement Codes for Grafix

Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.

, the leading stem cell company focused on developing and commercializing products to treat medical conditions in inflammatory, cardiovascular, orthopedic, and wound healing markets, announced today that it has received transitional pass-through status from the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”), with C-Codes being designated for Grafix®. Further, the product has been assigned pass-through status under Medicare's outpatient prospective payment system (“OPPS”), effective July 1, 2012. These codes will assist in facilitating reimbursement when Grafix products are used to treat Medicare patients with acute and chronic wounds in the hospital outpatient department and ambulatory surgical center settings. “We are very pleased with CMS, and their decision to assign pass-through codes for our Grafix line of Biosurgery products,” said Frank Czworka, Executive Director, Wound Care of Osiris Therapeutics. “This step will allow more Medicare patients and their providers to have greater access to these next-generation regenerative medicine products."