The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a draft coverage memo for cardiac contractility modulation (CCM), which offers coverage with evidence development for the company’s Optimizer line of devices. CMS said it will issue the final coverage memo by Oct. 8, 2025, which will mark the achievement of an objective the company set for itself more than two decades ago.
The American Medical Association’s CPT editorial panel will meet May 1-3 to consider codes for several devices and services, but the most important of these might be the code for cardiac contractility modulation.
The backlog of requests for Medicare national coverage analyses is a matter of record, but a new analysis highlights how deep that backlog runs. CMS declared it will review a petition from Impulse Dynamics to consider coverage of cardiac contractility modulation, responding to a request the company filed more than two and a half years ago.
