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  • Cath Lab Recap: Device IDs in Medicare; The Things You Find in LAA Embolic Filters Interventional cardiology news to note

    Following a report that Medicare wasted $1.5 billion on faulty cardiac devices, Josh Rising, director of healthcare programs at Pew Charitable Trusts, argued that a device-identifying number should be in place. “Patients might assume that Medicare is already tracking medical devices on claims forms, in the same way the program does with prescription drugs. But despite Congress passing legislation in 2007 requiring manufacturers to assign identifiers to all medical devices, there is still no place to record the numbers on Medicare claims,” he wrote in an op-ed appearing in the Wall Street Journal.

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