Cardiac rhythm management
and catheter ablation
reimbursement support

• Reimbursement guide: Extravascular ICD
• Prior authorization resources: Aurora EV-ICD™ system
• Reimbursement guide: ICD therapy
• Coding and payment overview: implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) therapy
• Coding scenarios: implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) therapy

• Coding and payment overview: cardiac resynchronization therapy
• Reimbursement overview: Cardiac Compass™ heart failure management

• Prior authorization resources: PulseSelect™ PFA catheter system
• Reimbursement overview: PulseSelect™ pulsed field ablation (PFA) system
• Reimbursement guide: cardiac catheter ablation and electrophysiology procedures
• Coding and payment overview: CardioInsight™ noninvasive 3-D mapping system
• Coding corner: CY2024 cardiac catheter ablation coding update

• Reimbursement guide: LINQ™ family of subcutaneous cardiac rhythm monitors
  
• Prior authorization resources: subcutaneous cardiac rhythm monitors

• CY2024 reimbursement update for remote monitoring
• Procedure codes: device monitoring services
• Reimbursement guide: cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) management services
• Reimbursement overview: CareLink Express™ mobile
• Reimbursement overview: CareLink SmartSync™ MRI access application

• Coding and payment overview: left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and peripherals

C-codes

• Go to the C-code finder

Coding resources

• Coding and payment overview: ambulatory surgical center
• Coding reference guide: cardiac rhythm management devices, cardiac catheter ablation, and cardiac diagnostic services
• Procedure codes: cardiac devices and catheter ablations
• Coding corner: reporting a manufacturer device credit
• Coding guide: TYRX

Relative value units (RVU)

• Procedure and monitoring relative value units (RVUs) for cardiac rhythm management devices, cardiac catheter ablation procedures, and cardiac diagnostic services

Reimbursement update presentations

• 2024 Medicare hospital inpatient changes for cardiac rhythm management and cardiac catheter ablations
• 2024 Medicare hospital outpatient and physician fee schedule updates and changes
• Watch reimbursement foundations video

Prior authorization tools and resources

• Prior authorization guide
• Prior authorization resources: Aurora EV-ICD™ system
• Prior authorization resources: LINQ™ subcutaneous cardiac rhythm monitors
• Prior authorization resources: Micra™ leadless pacemakers
• Prior authorization resources: PulseSelect™ PFA catheter system

Cost effectiveness analysis video

• Video: cost effectiveness analysis — an introduction

Medicare coverage

Medicare has issued national coverage determinations (NCDs) for the following CRHF therapies:

• Cardiac pacemakers
• Cardiac pacemaker evaluation services
• Electrocardiographic services
• Implantable cardioverter defibrillators
• Leadless pacemakers
• MRI in patients with CIED
• Transtelephonic monitoring of pacemakers
• Ventricular assist devices
• Search the Medicare Coverage Database

Medicare Advantage

• 2024 Medicare Advantage update

Magnetic resonance imaging

• Coding and coverage for MRI in Medicare patients with a CIED

Medicare payment rates

• To determine the Medicare physician payment rates in your area, consult the Medicare physician fee schedule (MPFS) search tool.