The Joint Commission's disease-specific care certification for destination therapy ventricular assist devices

Progress in Transplantation : Official Publication, North American Transplant Coordinators Organization ... [et Al.]
Kathleen L LockardRobert Kormos

Abstract

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that all hospitals implanting ventricular assist devices are required to have certification from the The Joint Commission for disease-specific care destination therapy with a ventricular assist device effective March 27, 2009, in order to receive Medicare reimbursement for services rendered to patients who have devices implanted for destination therapy. On February 23, 2007, The Joint Commission released the certification requirements for ventricular assist devices implanted for destination therapy in an 8-page document so that hospitals could prepare to meet the 2009 certification deadline. The Artificial Heart Program of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center undertook a multidisciplinary project, under the guidance of the nurse coordinator, to prepare the hospital and program for a precertification survey by The Joint Commission for disease-specific destination therapy ventricular assist device certification. The Presbyterian Hospital Artificial Heart Program was awarded The Joint Commission's device-specific certification for destination therapy with ventricular assist devices in June 2008.

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Jun 25, 2003·The Annals of Thoracic Surgery·William L HolmanJames K Kirklin
Oct 8, 2005·The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation : the Official Publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation·Kalman HoldyFrancis Pagani

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