CMS expands cardiac rehab services
Rehab Regs, March 31, 2006
CMS will expand coverage for cardiac rehabilitation services to three additional groups of patients, the agency announced in a press release last week.
The groups include Medicare beneficiaries who have had heart valve repair or replacement, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty or coronary stenting, or a heart or combined heart-lung transplant.
CMS determined that cardiac rehabilitation services should be comprehensive and include medical evaluation, education, and nutrition services.
The policy also acknowledged that physical therapy benefits cardiac rehabilitation patients, and PTs can treat these patients separately and outside of the cardiac rehabilitation program.
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