tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 44

HOSPITALS: Defibrillator Data Reporting Will Be Different Next Year

ACC has a new national data registry.Facilities must contact the American College of Cardiology's National Cardiovascular Data Registry before Jan. 1, 2006 to enroll in a new implantable cardioverter defibrillator data repository.The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced Oct. 27 it will require hospitals to transition their current ICD data reporting activities from the Quality Network Exchange ICD Abstract Tool (QNET) to the new ICD Registry.CMS will work with the ACC to collect data nationwide to learn more about using ICDs to prevent sudden cardiac death among Medicare beneficiaries, notes agency administrator Mark McClellan. The...

To read the full article, sign in and subscribe to tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement.

Thank you for choosing Find-A-Code, please Sign In to remove ads.