CMS approves wider use of device that restores proper heart beat.(Brief Article)

From: Older Americans Report | Date: January 28, 2005 | Copyright information

Acting only seven days after new data on the effectiveness of devices that restore a heart's disrupted rhythm was published in a medical journal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week approved a wider set of criteria for their use under Medicare.

Implantable cardioverter defibrillators are not pacemakers. Rather, then remain inert until they detect an abnormal beat and then deliver a restorative impulse, and they have been approved under Medicare since ...

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