Presenter: Jeanne E. Poole, MD, University of Washington (Seattle) for the SCD-HeFT Investigators The high incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD), particularly in patients with impaired left ...
October 22, 2004 — Although the recent decision by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand reimbursement coverage for implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) to ...