{"id":2069,"date":"2016-02-24T06:11:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T11:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2069"},"modified":"2016-02-24T11:12:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T16:12:29","slug":"percutaneous-left-atrial-appendage-closure-laac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=2069","title":{"rendered":"Percutaneous Left Atrial Appendage Closure (LAAC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Source &#8211; CMS.gov)<\/p>\n<p>CMS issued a Medicare National Coverage Determination (NCD) on February 8, 2016 which allows for coverage of LAAC under Coverage with Evidence Development (CED) with certain conditions. The complete determination is available on our website. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/Medicare\/Coverage\/Coverage-with-Evidence-Development\/LAAC.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<pre><strong>Notice<\/strong>: The \u201c<strong>Read more<\/strong>\u2026\u201d link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid\u00a0\u00a0on 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; CMS.gov) CMS issued a Medicare National Coverage Determination (NCD) on February 8, 2016 which allows for coverage of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2070,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2069\/revisions\/2070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}