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HeartSciences’ AI-ECG Algorithms Assigned CMS Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement
Southlake, TX, Nov. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences (NASDAQ: HSCS; HSCSW) (“HeartSciences” or the “Company”),
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[{"type":"text","content":"Southlake, TX, Nov. 13, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences (NASDAQ: HSCS; HSCSW) (“HeartSciences” or the “Company”), an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered medical technology company focused on transforming ECGs/EKGs to save lives through earlier detection of heart disease, today announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has included AI-ECG technology in the 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) final rule under assignment APC 5734. This approval would allow outpatient settings to receive reimbursement for HeartSciences’ MyoVista® wavECGTM algorithm and MyoVista® InsightsTM low ejection fraction algorithm, upon FDA clearance. The payment rate is expected to be $125. Andrew Simpson, CEO of HeartSciences, said, “The inclusion of AI-ECG for reimbursement by CMS represents a significant milestone for commercialization of our products and further validates the enormous market opportunity, particularly given the widespread use of the ECG in clinical practice. We look forward to submitting to the FDA and bringing to market both our MyoVista wavECG and MyoVista Insights platform in 2025.” About HeartSciences Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences is a medical technology company focused on applying innovative AI-based technology to an ECG (also known as an EKG) to expand and improve an ECG's clinical utility. Millions of ECGs are performed every week and the Company's objective is to improve healthcare by making it a far more valuable cardiac screening tool, particularly in frontline or point-of-care clinical settings. HeartSciences has one of the largest libraries of AI-ECG algorithms and is developing AI-ECG solutions to be made available on either a hardware agnostic cloud-based platform or its proprietary MyoVista® wavECG™ device, to help identify cardiovascular disease in any care setting worldwide in a manner to best suit different care providers. HeartSciences' first product candidate for FDA clearance, the MyoVista® wavECG™, or the MyoVista®, is a resting 12-lead ECG that is also designed to provide diagnostic information related to cardiac dysfunction which has traditionally only been available through the use of cardiac imaging. The MyoVista® also provides conventional ECG information in the same test. For more information, please v...