Posts Tagged ‘transplant’
Berlin Heart
In a study led by Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, the Berlin Heart, the world’s first specific [...] Read More »
Have you noticed that there has been a lot of news focused on the development of artificial livers? Although life support devices have been used for years for kidney, heart, and lung transplant patients, liver functions are very difficult to mimic and over 30,000 Americans die each year awaiting a liver transplant. But, several companies have been developing technologies that are in various stages of clinical trials. Read More »
Artificial Liver’s New Progress
Have you noticed that there has been a lot of news focused on the development of artificial livers? Although life support devices have been used for years for kidney, heart, and lung transplant patients, liver functions are very difficult to mimic and over 30,000 Americans die each year awaiting a liver transplant. But, several companies have been developing technologies that are in various stages of clinical trials. Read More »
A $1.3 Billion Bone Marrow Transplant Market
Prior to 2011, all bone marrow transplants fell under DRG 009 and had an average payment rate of $34,000. But now, CMS has split bone marrow transplant procedures into two separate codes, DRG 014 (allogenic bone marrow transplant) and DRG 015 (autologous bone marrow transplant), because there is a wide range of costs for bone marrow transplants. These costs are directly related to where the bone marrow is derived from. Allogenic (bone marrow derived from a donor) procedures, now under DRG 014, will have an average payment of $60,000. Autologous (patients own marrow is used) procedures have a payment of $31,000 (DRG 015). Read More »