{"id":16640,"date":"2020-08-14T09:14:02","date_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16640"},"modified":"2020-08-14T09:14:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-14T13:14:02","slug":"cms-proposes-updates-to-coverage-policy-for-artificial-hearts-and-ventricular-assist-devices-vads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=16640","title":{"rendered":"CMS Proposes Updates to Coverage Policy for Artificial Hearts and Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov\/newsroom)<\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed updates to coverage policies for artificial hearts and ventricular assist devices (VADs), both of which are used to treat patients with life-threatening advanced heart failure.\u00a0 Continue reading press release <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/cms-proposes-updates-coverage-policy-artificial-hearts-and-ventricular-assist-devices-vads\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-e1524659904197.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10228\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CMS-logo-2-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; www.cms.gov\/newsroom) The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed updates to coverage policies for artificial hearts and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,20,14,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cms","category-health-care-redesign","category-medical-technology","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16640"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16641,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16640\/revisions\/16641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}