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Abstract 4119868: Statin and PCSK9 Inhibitor Utilization and Spending in Medicaid between 2018 to 2022: A National Analysis

Circulation

Introduction:Low-income working-aged adults in the Medicaid program have a high burden of cardiovascular risk factors and disease, but often face barriers accessing necessary therapies. million statin prescriptions in 2018 compared to 20.3 However, Medicaid spending on statins decreased by 7.1%, from $246.2 million to $226.8

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Trends in direct health care costs among US adults with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease with and without diabetes

Cardiovascular Diabetology

The costs were direct total health care expenditures (out-of-pocket payments and payments by private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and other sources) from various sources (office-based visits, hospital outpatient, emergency room, inpatient hospital, pharmacy, home health care, and other medical expenditures).

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BioCardia’s CardiAMP Cell Therapy Chronic Myocardial Ischemia Trial Results Show Patient Benefits in Important Outcomes

DAIC

The CardiAMP cell therapy trials for the indications of both chronic myocardial ischemia and ischemic heart failure are covered by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid for both treatment and control procedures. CAUTION - Limited by United States law to investigational use.

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Real?World Evaluation of an Automated Algorithm to Detect Patients With Potentially Undiagnosed Hypertension Among Patients With Routine Care in Hawai?i

Journal of the American Heart Association

We calculated total patients with potentially undiagnosed hypertension and compared patients flagged for undiagnosed hypertension to those with diagnosed hypertension and to the full patient panel across individual characteristics, clinical and health system factors (eg, clinic of care), and timing.

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Abstract 280: Risk Factors in 90day Ischemic Stroke Readmissions

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

Study Population includes all patients with an ischemic stroke inpatient admission in 2018 and were continuously enrolled with Medicare FFS for 1 year prior to and following their initial 2018 stroke admission. Fewer females and white individuals had a 90‐day readmission (53.5% female and 83.1% in study population).

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Chris Malaisrie Burden of preoperative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery June 2018 J. Scott Rankin Associations Between Surgical Ablation and Operative Mortality After Mitral Valve Procedures The Annals of Thoracic Surgery June 2018 A.

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Published Research

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

Chris Malaisrie Burden of preoperative atrial fibrillation in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery June 2018 J. Scott Rankin 1 Associations Between Surgical Ablation and Operative Mortality After Mitral Valve Procedures The Annals of Thoracic Surgery June 2018 A.