{"id":7903,"date":"2025-07-14T17:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/?p=7903"},"modified":"2025-07-14T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:02:20","slug":"renal-denervation-for-uncontrolled-hypertension-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/renal-denervation-for-uncontrolled-hypertension-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Renal Denervation for Uncontrolled Hypertension"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Renal Denervation for Uncontrolled Hypertension<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Source: Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS)<\/div>\n<div>Date: July 10, 2025<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Key Summary Points<\/div>\n<div><span> 1. Proposed CMS Decision:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 CMS proposes to cover radiofrequency (rfRDN) and ultrasound (uRDN) renal denervation under a Coverage,\u00a0 for patients with uncontrolled hypertension.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 2. Patient Eligibility Criteria:<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Diagnosed with uncontrolled hypertension (BP &gt; 140\/90 mmHg) despite stable, maximally tolerated guideline-directed medical therapy for at least 3 months.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Diagnosis confirmed by ambulatory or serial home BP monitoring.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Excludes patients with eGFR &lt; 40, renal artery stenosis &gt;50%, renal tumors, fibromuscular dysplasia, or pregnancy.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Must have no prior RDN procedure.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 Referred by a primary BP management clinician after \u22656 months of follow-up and \u22653 encounters (2 in-person).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span> 3. Physician Requirements:<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0.\u00a0 \u00a0The referring clinician should have a long-term role in managing the patient\u2019s blood pressure, not just a one-time consultation.<\/div>\n<div><span> \u2022 RDN operators must have endovascular skills or complete hands-on training (5\u201310 proctored\/supervised RDN cases per device).<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/medicare-coverage-database\/view\/ncacal-decision-memo.aspx?proposed=Y&amp;ncaid=318&amp;fromTracking=Y&amp;\">https:\/\/www.cms.gov\/medicare-coverage-database\/view\/ncacal-decision-memo.aspx?proposed=Y&amp;ncaid=318&amp;fromTracking=Y&amp;<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renal Denervation for Uncontrolled Hypertension Source: Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) Date: July 10, 2025 Key Summary Points 1. Proposed CMS Decision: \u2022 CMS proposes to cover radiofrequency (rfRDN) and ultrasound (uRDN) renal denervation under a Coverage,\u00a0 for patients with uncontrolled hypertension. 2. Patient Eligibility Criteria: \u2022 Diagnosed with uncontrolled hypertension (BP &gt; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7904,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7903\/revisions\/7904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jordan-cardiac.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}