The Trump administration suspects that physicians may be regularly performing medically unnecessary peripheral vascular procedures in office-based labs, according to a recent investigation released by the Office of Inspector General and HHS in May. In 2008 CMS put policies in…
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Traditionally, academic medical centers have provided cardiologists with the most opportunities for research, medical education and other career advancements, but in recent years, community hospitals and private practices have been offering these same advancements, according to an article published on…
Pueblo, Colo.-based UCHealth Parkview Medical Center ended its cardiothoracic surgery program June 1, according to a report from The Pueblo Chieftain. Patients requiring cardiothoracic surgery will be referred to UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central in Colorado Springs, Colo., where the health system…
Michele Esposito, MD, an interventional-heart failure cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at the Charleston-based Medical University of South Carolina, received a Mentored Patient-Oriented Research Career Development Award, or K23, from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute of the…
Lynwood, Calif.-based Saint Francis Medical Center has the lowest number of hospital return days for heart attack patients in the nation, according to CMS data. The “Unplanned Hospital Visit” database tracks provider data for hospital return days, unplanned readmission and…
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Heat-related heart disease is projected to rise by 200% by 2050, researchers from Cleveland-based Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center found. The study, published May 27 in JAMA Cardiology, created the projections…
Four cardiac device safety actions landed on the FDA’s recall and early alert list in May, including a third Class I correction tied to Boston Scientific’s ongoing pacemaker battery issue and two separate Abiomed Impella alerts. On the innovation side,…
An experimental gene-editing treatment dramatically lowered cholesterol levels — maybe permanently — after one infusion, a preliminary study found. The study, published May 25 in The New England Journal of Medicine, gave 35 patients six doses of VERVE-102, an investigational…
The growing demand for minimally invasive aortic valve replacement in adults younger than 65 may have greater risk for more complicated heart surgeries later, according to a University of Rochester (N.Y.) Medicine study. The study, published April 13 in The…
Charleston, S.C.-based MUSC Health performed three heart transplants on the same day and a fourth the following day in a system record. Heart surgeons were notified of the first donor heart at 9:30 p.m. on a Thursday, then the second…