| Subject: | Hospitals Implanting ICDs for the Primary Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Arrest Must Register Their Intent to Participate in New ICD Registry by January 1, 2006 |
| Category: | Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
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| Published: | Mon, 26 Dec 2005 - 10:00 am |
| In January 2005, CMS announced it would expand Medicare coverage of implantable cardioverter defibrillators, ICDs, based on results of the Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial, SCD-HeFT, sponsored by the National Institute of Health's National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The decision increased the number of Medicare beneficiaries eligible for an ICD by one-third to nearly 500,000, and required hospitals to submit data to an ICD registry as a criterion of coverage. Since the decision... The full article is available to StayAlert subscribers. Click here for a free trial subscription. |
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