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CMS Releases 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Hospital OPPS Final Rules

American College of Cardiology

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final rule and the 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) final rule on Nov.

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HeartFlow AI Plaque Analysis Achieves Major Milestone Towards Medicare Coverage

DAIC

milla1cf Tue, 06/04/2024 - 20:54 June 4, 2024 — HeartFlow, a leader in cardiovascular healthcare technology, is pleased to announce a key Medicare policy development, which should allow for future expanded patient access to their Plaque Analysis product.

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CMS Releases Proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and Hospital OPPS Rule

American College of Cardiology

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). The overall reimbursement for cardiovascular services is projected to remain flat compared with 2024, with changes to policies and individual services roughly balancing out.

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Cardiology in H1 2024

CardiacWire

The first half of 2024 is now a wrap, and it was another big one in cardiology. GLP-1s are for CVD too – So far this year GLP-1s have gone from a weight loss and diabetes drug that “might” have cardiovascular benefits to becoming an FDA-approved and Medicare-covered option for CV event reduction.

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CMS Grants Distinct TPT Device Code and Category to Recor Medical for Ultrasound Renal Denervation

DAIC

tim.hodson Fri, 11/08/2024 - 09:57 Nov. 1, 2024 — Recor Medical, Inc. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have granted the company’s Paradise Ultrasound Renal Denervation system a Transitional Pass-through (TPT) payment. and its parent company, Otsuka Medical Devices Co. recently announced U.S.

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CMS Updates Medicare Coverage for AI-Coronary Plaque Analysis

DAIC

tim.hodson Wed, 10/16/2024 - 12:36 Oct. 15 , 2024 — Four of the seven Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) have released final local coverage determinations (LCD) for AI-Coronary Plaque Analysis (AI-CPA). The four contractors for the U.S. The LCDs have a future effective date of Nov.

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Action Steps Following CCTA Coding Change From 2025 OPPS Final Rule

American College of Cardiology

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has temporarily reassigned coronary CT angiography (CCTA) codes 75572-75574 from ambulatory payment classification (APC) 5571 to APC 5572 in the 2025 Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule. in 2024 to $357.13 in 2025.