tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2005 Issue 14

PHYSICIANS: OIG Tracking ICD Patients

Implantable defibrillators must be registered.Medicare patients who receive an ICD or replacement ICD as a primary prevention of sudden cardiac death must be enrolled in a data collection system - otherwise, Medicare may not provide coverage for the procedure.What to do: CMS has released an implantable cardioverter defibrillator abstraction (ICDA) tool - an electronic registry - that Medicare-participating hospitals can download. Physicians can use the tool solely for data collection. However, they must submit patient information to the system to satisfy Medicare's coverage requirement, CMS said in a Medlearn Matters article. ICD patients who qualify for the...

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