CMS grants reimbursement code for the Polarean XENOVIEW MRI Technology

The code is effective as of October 1, 2023

Durham, NC, Aug. 29, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

Polarean (AIM: POLX), a commercial-stage medical device leader in advanced MRI scanning of the lungs, announces that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has established a new reimbursement code for the Polarean XENOVIEW (xenon Xe 129, hyperpolarized) technology, effective October 1, 2023.

The code (C9791) enables healthcare providers a path to bill for “magnetic resonance imaging with inhaled hyperpolarized xenon-129 contrast agent, chest, including preparation and administration of agent”. This was announced as part of the release of the October 2023 Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) code set. The payment level associated with the XENOVIEW MRI code is yet to be announced and is expected to be received in the coming weeks.

“We have been working diligently with CMS, our clinicians and hospital-based billing stakeholders over the past several months and view this as an important step towards enhancing accessibility to this innovative technology,” said Christopher von Jako, Ph.D., CEO of Polarean. “We look forward to learning the payment details tied to the new code, in the coming weeks, as we continue to increase access to XENOVIEW MRI for patients suffering from ventilation-associated lung diseases.”

About Polarean (www.polarean.com)

The Company and its wholly owned subsidiary, Polarean, Inc. (together the “Group”) are revenue-generating, medical imaging technology companies operating in the high-resolution medical imaging space. Polarean aspires to revolutionize pulmonary medicine by bringing the power and safety of MRI to the respiratory healthcare community in need of new solutions to evaluate lung ventilation, diagnose disease, characterize disease progression, and monitor response to treatment. By researching, developing, and commercializing novel imaging solutions with a non-invasive and radiation-free functional imaging platform. Polarean’ s vision is to help address the global unmet medical needs of more than 500 million patients worldwide suffering with chronic respiratory disease. Polarean is a leader in the field of hyperpolarization science and has successfully developed the first and only hyperpolarized MRI contrast agent to be approved in the United States. On Dec. 23, 2022, the FDA granted approval for Polarean’ s first drug device combination product, XENOVIEW (Xenon Xe¹²⁹ hyperpolarized). Xe¹²⁹ MRI is also currently being studied for visualization and quantification of gas exchange regionally in the smallest airways of the lungs, across the alveolar tissue membrane, and into the pulmonary bloodstream for future clinical indications.