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

DAIC

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have granted the company’s Paradise Ultrasound Renal Denervation system a Transitional Pass-through (TPT) payment. The Paradise uRDN system delivers two to three doses of 360-degree ultrasound energy — lasting seven seconds each — through the main renal arteries to the surrounding nerves.

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Utilization and Outcomes Associated With Intravascular Ultrasound during Abdominal and Thoracic Endovascular Aortic Interventions in the United States in the Contemporary Era (2016–2023)

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

IVUS use increased slightly from 2016 to 2023, driven more by use in TEVAR compared with EVAR, and was higher in academic settings, with Medicare and Medicaid dual enrollment, in the West, with dissections, with malperfusion and for elective procedures.