At a glance
Cardiac rehabilitation
Cardiac rehabilitation eligibility rates among all eligible fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries by county. The map shows that the concentrations of counties with the highest cardiac rehabilitation eligibility—meaning the top quintile—are located primarily in Maine, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Minnesota, Montana, and New Mexico. Pockets of high-rate counties also were found in Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Mississippi, Iowa, Wisconsin, North Dakota, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada.
Cardiac rehabilitation participation rates among all eligible fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries by county. The map shows that the concentrations of counties with the highest cardiac rehabilitation eligibility—meaning the top quintile—are located primarily in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. Pockets of high-rate counties also were found in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky, Arkansas Oklahoma, South Carolina, Mississippi, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, New Mexico, and Alaska.
Definitions:
Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) eligibility refers to the eligibility rate for Medicare beneficiaries who have a primary qualifying event or diagnosis defined by the Million Hearts Outpatient Cardiac Rehabilitation Use Surveillance Methodology. Qualifying events or diagnoses include acute myocardial infarction, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, heart valve repair or replacement procedure, percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary stenting, and heart or heart-lung transplant.
Cardiac rehabilitation participation refers to the participation rate for beneficiaries who attended one or more CR sessions within 365 days of a qualifying event.