2009 Technical Reimbursement Rate

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2009 Medicare? No one seems to be telling. As you know the 2008 rate was $1123 announced by Cardionet in a press release. For entertainment purposes, let's put the over/ under at $750.

I'll take the UNDER.
 


















Anonymous said:
Would not be surprised if the reimbursement goes way below. How reliable is cell phone technology? MCOT is no more useful than an autotrigger and/or 7 day holter.
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Has anyone ever heard of a pt wearing an MCOT and a holter at the same time. I wonder if the data would be the same?
Medicare and the privates will catch onto this real soon. Reimbursement will be about 750 or lower.
Not worth the amount the companies are "Charging" ie- 5k, 4k or 3k take your pick. I feel sorry for the patients who get stuck with copay on those prices.
 


















The 2009 Medicare technical component would be listed on the EOMB for any procedure billed with a Date of Service of 1-1-09 or later. It takes about 3 weeks to get paid from Medicare, so I bet it became known to both Cardionet and Lifewatch around January 21 or so. Oddly, January 23 is when the Cardionet CEO jumps (or is pushed). Perhaps this reimbursement issue caused a difference of opinion regarding strategy. Who knows?

Either way, Both Cardionet and Lifewatch are public companies and will have to report their revenues for Q 1 2009. We'll know by then at the latest.
 






Anonymous said:
Cell phone technology is very reliable. For your information most people have them nowadays. Do you still live in 1985?
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You missed your true calling. I will think of that when a patient in VFIB loses cell coverage traveling down the highway. You must be annointed to have never lost cell coverage.
Where do you live? "nowadays". Proper use of the Queen's English, no wonder you dominate the market. By the way, what is your definition of "very" as in very reliable?
 






Anonymous said:
The 2009 Medicare technical component would be listed on the EOMB for any procedure billed with a Date of Service of 1-1-09 or later. It takes about 3 weeks to get paid from Medicare, so I bet it became known to both Cardionet and Lifewatch around January 21 or so. Oddly, January 23 is when the Cardionet CEO jumps (or is pushed). Perhaps this reimbursement issue caused a difference of opinion regarding strategy. Who knows?

Either way, Both Cardionet and Lifewatch are public companies and will have to report their revenues for Q 1 2009. We'll know by then at the latest.
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Who knows this now? Anyone?
 






Anonymous said:
You missed your true calling. I will think of that when a patient in VFIB loses cell coverage traveling down the highway. You must be annointed to have never lost cell coverage.
Where do you live? "nowadays". Proper use of the Queen's English, no wonder you dominate the market. By the way, what is your definition of "very" as in very reliable?
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So you do not like my nowadays throwback. Seriously, are you from 1985 or live in the forest? Is your cell coverage that bad?
You're right, a 7 day holter or autotrigger event monitor would be a lot better for that patient driving down the highway in VFIB. I'm sure they will get home and download that info asap. You really are an idiot.
 






Anonymous said:
The 2009 Medicare technical component would be listed on the EOMB for any procedure billed with a Date of Service of 1-1-09 or later. It takes about 3 weeks to get paid from Medicare, so I bet it became known to both Cardionet and Lifewatch around January 21 or so. Oddly, January 23 is when the Cardionet CEO jumps (or is pushed). Perhaps this reimbursement issue caused a difference of opinion regarding strategy. Who knows?

Either way, Both Cardionet and Lifewatch are public companies and will have to report their revenues for Q 1 2009. We'll know by then at the latest.
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It stayed the same... $1123.
 






Anonymous said:
You missed your true calling. I will think of that when a patient in VFIB loses cell coverage traveling down the highway. You must be annointed to have never lost cell coverage.
Where do you live? "nowadays". Proper use of the Queen's English, no wonder you dominate the market. By the way, what is your definition of "very" as in very reliable?
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Seriously that made me laugh my ASS off. VFIB??? Are you $#%^ serious! Get off of this board you 5 year old piece of crap. You are obviously an X copier sales rep trying to sale for Ecardio and you have no #@$% clue what you are doing. Thanks for the laugh, do you know what a ECG is?
 












I think 5 different people have answered this question. I will be number 6. YES, it has stayed the same. It had stayed the same from last year... yes, $1123, the same amount. Nothing has changed for the technical in 2009.
 






Anonymous said:
Seriously that made me laugh my ASS off. VFIB??? Are you $#%^ serious! Get off of this board you 5 year old piece of crap. You are obviously an X copier sales rep trying to sale for Ecardio and you have no #@$% clue what you are doing. Thanks for the laugh, do you know what a ECG is?
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I'm really good at it, I get under your skin and stay there like a mother in law. I'm actually 6, I do live in the woods. Cell coverage is not an issue because I have a satellite phone. Furthermore, as 6 year old, even I know the proper/original term is EKG or did you not read Dubin's book? Sorry, I did not get certified by the ATI.
 






Anonymous said:
Seriously that made me laugh my ASS off. VFIB??? Are you $#%^ serious! Get off of this board you 5 year old piece of crap. You are obviously an X copier sales rep trying to sale for Ecardio and you have no #@$% clue what you are doing. Thanks for the laugh, do you know what a ECG is?
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Actually, you have no clue. Stay in the dark and watch your hook ups disappear!!!!
It is eCardio (spell it right)
 






Anonymous said:
I'm really good at it, I get under your skin and stay there like a mother in law. I'm actually 6, I do live in the woods. Cell coverage is not an issue because I have a satellite phone. Furthermore, as 6 year old, even I know the proper/original term is EKG or did you not read Dubin's book? Sorry, I did not get certified by the ATI.
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"I get under your skin and stay there like a mother in law"??? I can not tell if you are kidding, or just plain stupid. Since you obviously do not understand how any of this works, and can only comment on cellular portion of these devices... I'll vote stupid.
 












Anonymous said:
"I get under your skin and stay there like a mother in law"??? I can not tell if you are kidding, or just plain stupid. Since you obviously do not understand how any of this works, and can only comment on cellular portion of these devices... I'll vote stupid.
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Stupid? Ask me any question about MCOT. I probably understand it better than you. I would be careful too if you challenge me clinically. I do seem to get a rise out of you Cardionet people.

The cell phone portion of your device just happens to be an important part of all MCOT devices. I was only referencing one aspect of the service. Without it what are we? Just event monitoring. You guys at CN can not even produce the promised 24 hours of data when a physician asks for it. What do you do with all the data once a patient goes inactive?
What if a physician wants information a few days after the patient is finished with their service?

Back to the cell phone portion. Some CN reps are making too much out this. Just as you say there is more some of your co-workers think it is the only thing. They promote MCOT as an emergency detection device. This opens the door to those poor event monitoring guys and lessens all of our credibility when it comes to MCOT.

I'm not stupid, just a bad comedian.
 






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