Posts Tagged ‘Cardiology’

Noridian Retires Three LCDs, Revises Three

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Noridian Administrative Services, LLC (NAS) announced earlier this month that it is retiring certain local coverage determinations (LCDs) and revising a few others.

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Ablation Catheters for Atrial Fibrillation Approved

Friday, February 13th, 2009

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced, Feb. 6, that it has approved the first ablation catheters—BioSense Webster’s NaviStar ThermoCool and the EZ Steer ThermoCool Nav—for the treatment of atrial fibrillation (AF).

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Enterprise Imaging: “CMS Rescinds ‘One Intervention per Vessel’ Rule, Revises Doppler Coding for 2009″

Friday, January 2nd, 2009

Staying current is one of the greatest challenges to coding services correctly, and therefore to capturing the reimbursement your practice deserves without running afoul of payer regulations. For interventional radiology and cardiology, recent months have brought important—but easy to overlook—changes. Now is the time to be sure you’re reporting your claims accurately.

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