American Medical Association (AMA) Grants Cardio Diagnostics Holdings, Inc.’s AI-Powered Coronary Heart Disease Detection Test, PrecisionCHD, a Dedicated CPT PLA Reimbursement Code
02 Enero 2024 - 7:31AM
Business Wire
Obtaining a CPT PLA code marks a key milestone in securing
reimbursement from federal and private payers for, and expanding
access to the innovative PrecisionCHD test powered by AI and
epigenetics
Cardio Diagnostics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDIO), an AI-driven
precision cardiovascular medicine company, today announced that the
American Medical Association (AMA) has assigned a dedicated Current
Procedural Terminology (CPT®) Proprietary Laboratory Analysis
(PLA), 0440U, for the company’s AI-driven coronary heart disease
(CHD) detection test, PrecisionCHD. Receipt of this new CPT PLA
code, which will be effective on April 1, 2024, is a significant
step toward payer billing and payment, facilitating broader
adoption of the first and only integrated genetic-epigenetic
diagnostic blood test for CHD.
Transforming CHD Diagnosis: The Clinical and Economic
Benefits of PrecisionCHD
CHD, which is the most common type of heart disease and the
major cause of heart attacks, was responsible for over 375,000
deaths in 2021 and the medical costs associated with CHD are
projected to reach about $215 billion by 2035. The PrecisionCHD
test, which evaluates a patient’s unique genetic and epigenetic
biomarkers and interprets them using AI, aims to aid in the
diagnosis of CHD and provide personalized insights to help prevent
a costly heart attack and improve outcomes.
Identifying those with CHD and intervening prior to a heart
attack occurring are essential to reducing the unprecedented
economic and health burden associated with CHD. However, the lack
of readily accessible, scalable and cost-effective diagnostic
solutions for CHD poses a significant challenge, and could lead to
delayed diagnosis and care, particularly among underserved and
minority populations. The PrecisionCHD test only requires a simple
blood draw, can be deployed remotely, and be scaled without the
need for specialized infrastructure to enable more timely
intervention and management.
“Cardio Diagnostics is committed to ensuring that our solutions
are widely accessible and receiving a dedicated CPT PLA code for
PrecisionCHD is a critical milestone in our commercialization
strategy,” said Meesha Dogan, Ph.D., CEO and Co-Founder of Cardio
Diagnostics. “With PrecisionCHD, we believe that expanding
equitable access to CHD diagnostics and improving patient health
outcomes while reducing healthcare expenditure is possible.”
Transforming Care Delivery with PrecisionCHD
With the potential to prevent costly heart attacks and improve
patient outcomes, PrecisionCHD is poised to play a significant role
in reducing healthcare expenditures. By focusing on personalized
insights and care along with earlier intervention even in locations
that lack specialty cardiology resources, such as those in rural
settings, PrecisionCHD supports the value-based care objective of
delivering high-quality, timely care at a lower cost, benefiting
patients, providers, and the healthcare system.
A Health Plan’s Population Health Initiative Can be
Accelerated by PrecisionCHD
PrecisionCHD introduces a groundbreaking approach to CHD
detection, which creates a new category of scalable and
personalized cardiovascular diagnostic tools. This blood test
offers innovative opportunities for health plans that need to
implement, alongside their provider partners, widespread and
actionable CHD detection and member risk stratification programs,
leading to better care management and patient outcomes along with
improved cost management. This potential impact on population
health can be as significant as the technology itself.
PrecisionCHD Recognized for Innovation
The study outlining the development and validation of the
PrecisionCHD test in collaboration with Intermountain Healthcare
and University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, was recently
published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an
official journal of the American Heart Association. PrecisionCHD
was also included in the recent Innovative Technology contract
awarded to Cardio Diagnostics by Vizient, Inc., the nation’s
largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company
whose customer base encompasses over 60% of hospitals and 97% of
academic medical centers in the United States.
About Cardio Diagnostics
Cardio Diagnostics is an artificial intelligence-powered
precision cardiovascular medicine company that makes cardiovascular
disease prevention, detection, and management more accessible,
personalized, and precise. The Company was formed to further
develop and commercialize clinical tests by leveraging a
proprietary Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven Integrated
Genetic-Epigenetic Engine (“Core Technology”) for cardiovascular
disease to become one of the leading medical technology companies
for improving prevention, detection, and treatment of
cardiovascular disease. For more information, please visit
www.cardiodiagnosticsinc.com.
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