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Podcasts

These podcasts provide short overviews about various topics relating to Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management. Listen to them now or download them for later. Podcasts will continue to be added, so check back periodically for new information.

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Hospital Medicare Inpatient Reimbursement Basics
(7 minutes)

November 2009
This podcast provides an explanation of Medicare Severity Diagnosis Related Groups (MS-DRG) and summarizes Medicare's payment approach for hospital inpatient services.

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C-codes
(5 minutes)

November 2009
This podcast provides an explanation of C-codes and the role they play in the hospital outpatient Medicare payment system.

Podcast podcast
Patient Responsibility
(5 minutes)

November 2009
This podcast provides an explanation of the patient's responsibiltity for payment of Medicare services, Part A and Part B.

Podcast podcast
Ambulatory Payment Classification (APC)
(5 minutes)

November 2009
This podcast provides a summary of how Medicare reimburses hospitals for outpatient services using a pacemaker example.

Podcast podcast
Medicare NCD and LCDs
(5 minutes)

November 2009
This podcast provides an explanation of Medicare national coverage determinations (NCD) and local coverage determinations (LCD).

Podcast podcast
Hospital Inpatient 2010 Update
(5 minutes)

November 2009
This podcast summarizes key changes for the Medicare Inpatient hospital payment regulations for fiscal year 2010.

Podcast podcast
Physician Medicare Reimbursement Basics
(3 minutes)

November 2009
This podcast provides an explanation of how Medicare pays physicians for their services.

Podcast podcast
Heartfailure Management: Reimbursement, Readmissions and Re-structuring Care Delivery
(5 minutes)

October 2009
This brief podcast discusses various facets of HF management from reimbursement to readmissions to quality metrics.

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