CMS Critiques MADIT-II: “Inducible” Patients Should Have Been Excluded
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
CMS' Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee will consider whether MADIT-II's inclusion of 210 patients with known ventricular arrhythmia undermines investigator claims for prophylactic ICD use in patients without inducible ventricular tachyarrythmias (VT)