Cardiac Rehabilitation

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Eligibility and participation

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged ≥65 years were considered eligible for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation (CR) if they experienced a qualifying event. Participation was defined as the percentage of CR eligible beneficiaries who participated in ≥1 CR session within 365 days of the qualifying event.

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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 eligibility rates among all eligible fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries by county, 2019–2020

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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.
Cardiac rehabilitation participation rates among all eligible fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries by county, 2019–2020

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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.

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National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP); About the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention