News You Can Use:
Delay in Pacemaker NCD Leaves Decisions to Your Local MAC
Published on Tue Oct 13, 2015
Stay tuned for more details from CMS. CMS announced a temporary delay in implementing National Coverage Determination (NCD) 20.8.3, “Cardiac Pacemakers: Single Chamber and Dual Chamber Permanent Cardiac Pacemakers.” The NCD determined single and dual chamber cardiac pacemakers “are reasonable and necessary for the treatment of non-reversible symptomatic bradycardia due to sinus node dysfunction and second and/or third degree atrioventricular [...]