Heart Rhythm Society's survey assessing the impact of reductions in Medicare reimbursement for cardiac ablation in the United States

Daniel P Morin; Andrew D Krahn; Fred Kusumoto; Christopher F Liu; Amit J Shanker; Emily P Zeitler; Lisa Miller; Anne Marie Smith; Kimberly A Selzman; 2021–2022 Heart Rhythm Society Health Policy Committee and Staff

doi:10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.06.020

Heart Rhythm Society's survey assessing the impact of reductions in Medicare reimbursement for cardiac ablation in the United States

Heart Rhythm. 2022 Sep;19(9):1564-1565. doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.06.020. Epub 2022 Jun 17.

Authors

Daniel P Morin¹, Andrew D Krahn², Fred Kusumoto³, Christopher F Liu⁴, Amit J Shanker⁵, Emily P Zeitler⁶, Lisa Miller⁷, Anne Marie Smith⁷, Kimberly A Selzman⁸; 2021–2022 Heart Rhythm Society Health Policy Committee and Staff

Affiliations

¹ Ochsner Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. Electronic address: dmorin@ochsner.org.
² University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia.
³ Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida.
⁴ Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
⁵ St. Lawrence Health System, Potsdam, New York.
⁶ Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
⁷ Heart Rhythm Society, Washington, District of Columbia.
⁸ George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.

PMID: 35718315
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2022.06.020

No abstract available

Keywords: Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Health policy; Reimbursement; Relative value unit; Supraventricular tachycardia; Ventricular tachycardia.

MeSH terms

Aged
Atrial Fibrillation* / surgery
Catheter Ablation*
Humans
Medicare
Tachycardia, Supraventricular* / surgery
United States