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Know These Qualifications for Medicare-Covered TTVR Surgery

Published on Fri Nov 28, 2025

Question: A colleague mentioned that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) provides reimbursement for transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement (TTVR) surgery only if certain conditions are met, including the care team being comprised of providers with specialist knowledge of tricuspid regurgitation (TR). We have a Medicare beneficiary scheduling surgery and I want to make sure we meet all the [...]
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