Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Decision to Reconsider Coverage Indications for ICDs: Where to Now?

Sana M Al-Khatib; Anne M Gillis; Anne B Curtis

doi:10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.031786

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Decision to Reconsider Coverage Indications for ICDs: Where to Now?

Circulation. 2018 Jan 23;137(4):317-319. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.031786. Epub 2017 Oct 25.

Authors

Sana M Al-Khatib¹, Anne M Gillis², Anne B Curtis³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Cardiology and Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (S.M.A.-K.) [email protected].
² Division of Cardiology, University of Calgary and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, Canada (A.M.G.).
³ Department of Medicine, University of Buffalo, NY (A.B.C.).

PMID: 29070501
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.031786

No abstract available

Keywords: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.); cardiomyopathies; defibrillators, implantable; randomized controlled trials as topic.

MeSH terms

Aged
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / economics
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / mortality
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / physiopathology
Arrhythmias, Cardiac / therapy*
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.* / economics
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.* / legislation & jurisprudence
Clinical Decision-Making
Death, Sudden, Cardiac / prevention & control*
Defibrillators, Implantable* / economics
Electric Countershock / economics
Electric Countershock / instrumentation*
Eligibility Determination* / economics
Eligibility Determination* / legislation & jurisprudence
Evidence-Based Medicine
Health Policy* / economics
Health Policy* / legislation & jurisprudence
Humans
Medicare* / economics
Medicare* / legislation & jurisprudence
Policy Making
Primary Prevention / economics
Primary Prevention / instrumentation*
Primary Prevention / legislation & jurisprudence
Secondary Prevention / economics
Secondary Prevention / instrumentation*
Secondary Prevention / legislation & jurisprudence
United States