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Article: 3 State Medicaid Programs OKCoverage for Zoll LifeVest.
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- Health & Beauty Close-Up
- Article date:
- January 12, 2009
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Zoll Medical Corp., a manufacturer of resuscitation devices and related software solutions, announced that the Zoll LifeVest Wearable Defibrillator is now covered by three state Medicaid programs in the country--California, New York and Texas.
Medi-Cal in California provides health care coverage and prescription coverage to a monthly average of 6.5 million low-income senior citizens, children and families, and people with disabilities, while New York covers over 4.5 million and Texas has over 2.5 million enrolled.
According to a release, the LifeVest, the first and only wearable defibrillator, is worn by patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) ...