Cardiac pacemaker implantations (DRG 116) made the headlines in the first-ever Medicare Quarterly Provider Compliance Newsletter (issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [CMS] just this ...
Cardiac device therapy has significantly evolved since the introduction of the first implantable pacemaker and the subsequent ...
Abbott is teaming up with AtaCor Medical to develop a next-generation implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) designed ...
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In what started as one of the scariest periods of their lives while awaiting heart transplants, these two local men formed a ...
Pacemakers and defibrillators have a growing use in pediatrics and in patients with congenital heart disease, but they present unique problems and implications for their implantation and follow-up.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved a new indication for the LifeVest wearable cardioverter defibrillator. The LifeVest is approved for certain children who are at risk for sudden ...
Jesse McIntosh hopes to be like Kansas City Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. someday. The 8-year-old from Mansfield, Missouri, also wants to be a medical engineer and create devices like the one that ...
While large reimbursements from orthopedics, spine and cardiac cases may, on their faces, appeal to hospitals, the reality is that implant and device costs associated with the procedures are generally ...