Medicare to Pay for Heart Devices in Exchange for Personal Case Data

Medicare says it will now cover the cost of life-saving, implantable devices that can shock a heart back to normal rhythm, but at a price: Patients have to be willing to sign away their private case data to a database that would be shared among researchers and Medicare.[A.M. Best Company, Inc.]http://workgroups.newsedge.com/display_news.asp?doc_id=NEm0131006.2be