Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Secondary objectives evaluated all-cause mortality and adverse events following amputation.RESULTS:Of 33 036 total Medicare beneficiaries undergoing major amputation, 7885 (23.9%) were due to chronic limb-threatening ischemia; of these, 4988 (63.3%) received low-intensity and 2897 (36.7%) received high-intensity vascular care.

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Stroke Journal

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

We hypothesize an association between hypoglycemic events and the occurrence of stroke among patients with diabetes.METHODS:We used Medicare inpatient, outpatient, emergency department, and subacute nursing facility data sets from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019, and validated usingInternational Classification of Diseases,Tenth Revision, Clinical (..)

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Diabetes Stroke Strokes Medicare 71

HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

As of 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires that each hospital publish the standard prices of the procedures it offers in a document called a chargemaster. The stated purpose of this rule is to promote pricing transparency and help patients and health plans make informed healthcare decisions.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

As of 2023, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses NIHSS as a risk adjustment variable. Medicare and Mount Sinai Health System registry data were linked using a matching algorithm. of Medicare cases even though it was documented in 93.1% Index AIS admissions were identified using the ICD-10-CM code of I63.x.

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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

AUGUST 8, 2023

BACKGROUNDIn 2019 and 2020, 2 randomized trials of basilar artery occlusion (BAO) thrombectomy reported no improvement in functional outcomes with thrombectomy, despite observational evidence and weak guidelines recommending thrombectomy. Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, Ahead of Print. versus 16.1%;P=0.41). versus 16.1%;P=0.41).

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Methods:We conducted a national cross-sectional analysis of 71,078,619 adults aged >65 years enrolled in Medicare from January 1, 2016 to December 31, 2019. Among 844,406 Medicare beneficiaries with incident AIS, Black individuals had a 19% increased hazard of AIS compared to White individuals (HR 1.19, 95% CI 1.14-1.25,

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Stroke Strokes Medicare Education 40

CardiacWire

APRIL 10, 2024

GLP-1s Are So Hot Right Now – In the year since ACC 2023, GLP-1s went from a weight loss and diabetes drug that “might” have cardiovascular benefits to becoming a promising (and Medicare-covered) option for CV event reduction.

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Innovation Technology Interventional Cardiology Medicare 59

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

County-level SDOH factors associated with increased likelihood of discharge home included education (lowest vs highest quartile), owner occupied home (lowest vs highest quartile), foreign-born (lowest vs highest quartile), self-pay/no insurance (vs Medicare). The primary outcome measure was discharge to home.

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Stroke Strokes Education Medicare 40

Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 12, 2024

For AIS, we calculated (1) the proportion of White patients at the hospital, (2) the proportional difference in the proportion of White patients between hospital patients and the county, and (3) provider care segregation by the dissimilarity index for ET cases.

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Hospital Outcomes Inpatient Stroke 40

American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Initiatives such as the World Health Organization's "Medication Without Harm" and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) expanded quality measures aim to reduce preventable emergency visits and hospital admissions due to medication-related harm.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Medicare beneficiaries age≥67 with Part A/B/D coverage, ≥1 ICD code for AIS/TIA in 2015-2018, and no prior AIS/TIA or high intensity statin use (N=76,707). We followed the cohort forward until end of 2019 for high intensity statin use (atorvastatin ≥40mg or rosuvastatin ≥20mg).

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Stroke Strokes Medicare Outcomes 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This study investigates factors influencing anxiety and depression prevalence in stroke patients.Methods:Utilizing 2019 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data, we conducted chi-square tests and multivariate logistic regression models, adjusting for various factors. 95%CI (0.2,0.9). 95%CI (0.4,0.9) 95% CI (1.1,7.7)

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

They were more likely insured by Medicare, less by Medicaid, and less likely baseline ambulatory, have a Bachelor’s degree, or own a home, with lower median income.

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Stroke Strokes Medicaid Medicare 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

to identify patients with a diagnosis of AVM from the statewide inpatient and emergency department databases of Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New York, and Washington (2016-2019). Medicare) patients (1.82, 1.45 2.26) had higher odds of receiving surgical AVM treatment (Table 1).

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Hemorrhage Medicare Inpatient Research 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The objective of our analysis was to determine if SDOH are associated with ambulatory status at discharge following acute ischemic stroke(IS) hospitalization.Methods:We included IS patients hospitalized from January 1, 2015-December 31, 2019 who were ambulating at baseline and had known county of residence in the GWTG registry.

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Stroke Strokes Education Medicaid 40

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

JANUARY 7, 2025

A study presented this week at The Society of Thoracic Surgeons 61st Annual Meeting explores findings in more than a million US Medicare beneficiaries who underwent CABG from 2001 to 2019. They noted that because their analysis was focused on the Medicare population, the cohort was limited to older patients.

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Outcomes Cardiothoracic Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Medicare 40

CardiacWire

JULY 13, 2024

However, a Medicare fraud settlement featuring some of Houston’s most prominent institutions and cardiac surgeons reveals the pitfalls of this incentive structure. Since getting flagged by a whistleblower in 2019, the U.S. District Attorney’s office decided that this amounted to Medicare fraud.

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Stroke Journal

DECEMBER 8, 2023

BACKGROUND:Stroke is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, one of the leading contributors to Medicare cost, including through Medicare hospice benefits, and the rate of stroke mortality has been increasing since 2013. from 78 812 to 160 884. from 78 812 to 160 884. P<0.001). P<0.001).

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Medicare Stroke Strokes Dementia 40

Circulation

APRIL 7, 2025

The present study aims to characterize racial disparities in long-term outcomes, perioperative outcomes, and health care use after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair.METHODS:We conducted a retrospective cohort study from 2011 to 2019 with outcome assessment through 2020.

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Aneurysm Medicare Aortic Outcomes 45

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Methods Medicare fee-for-service (FFS) claims and Abbott device registration databases were linked to identify patients implanted with single-chamber or dual-chamber pacemakers with the Abbott Tendril 2088 lead from January 1, 2014 to December 31, 2019 and were followed through December 31, 2021. Groups were comparable in age (79.78.6

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Medicare Pacemaker Article 40

DAIC

MARCH 7, 2024

It reported the rate of CCTA exams by radiologists in hospital outpatient departments increased markedly from 2010 to 2019. Data was pulled from 2010–2019 Physician/Supplier Procedure Summary (PSPS) files obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) website. Reeves, MD, Ethan J. Halpern, MD, and Vijay M.

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Technology Document Cardiovascular Imaging Cancer 111

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

In separate models, we estimated the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) of three outcomes (inpatient mortality, 30-day mortality, and discharge home) using multilevel logistic models for clustered data, with data clustered at the county level.

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Stroke Strokes Outcomes Medicare 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Methods:This retrospective analysis utilized complete, de-identified inpatient Medicare data from January 1, 2016, to December 31, 2019. We included Medicare beneficiaries aged 65 years with incident AIS admissions in large metropolitan and non-urban settings.

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Stroke Strokes Medicare ICU 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Between 2016 and 2019, the overall proportion of IRF discharges did not change significantly (21.8% Medicare) insured (1.73, 1.66-1.79), Utilizing multivariable logistic regression multivariable logistic regression with patient-level cluster-robust standard errors, we evaluate the correlates of discharge to IRF (vs. Among these, 21.8%

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Inpatient Stroke Strokes Hemorrhage 40

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

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.

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Risk Factors Stroke Strokes Medicare 40

Stroke Journal

APRIL 3, 2024

Within the PSD cohort, 25 451 (71.5%) had no death or recurrent stroke within 6 months and 5592 (15.7%) had no death or readmission of any cause within 6 months.

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Stroke Strokes Medicare Outpatient 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Medicare) have a lower risk of r-ICH (0.45, 0.31 - 0.67), AIS (0.71, 0.53 - 0.95), and MACE (0.58, 0.47 - 0.71). Results:Among 10,652 ICH patients (median age [IQR]: 70 [58 - 80] years; 47.7% female; 43.2% lobar ICH), 3.3%, 3.1%, 0.5%, and 8.1%, respectively, experienced r-ICH, AIS, AMI, and MACE. Patients with lobar ICH (vs. Blacks (vs.

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Hemorrhage Myocardial Infarction Atrial Fibrillation Medicare 40

Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 16, 2025

The study included 167 Medicare patients with suspected acute stroke transported by MSU and 2518 propensity scorematched controls.

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Stroke Strokes Medicare Blood Pressure 40

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

APRIL 20, 2023

Institutional Coronary Artery Bypass Case Volumes and Outcomes European Journal of Heart Failure October 2023 Makoto Mori Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation The Annals of Thoracic Surgery August 2023 Carlos Diaz-Castrillion Volume-Failure to Rescue Relationship in Acute Type A Aortic Dissections: An Analysis of The Society (..)

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Research Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Aortic valve Congenital 52

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

APRIL 20, 2023

Institutional Coronary Artery Bypass Case Volumes and Outcomes European Journal of Heart Failure October 2023 Makoto Mori 1 Robotic Mitral Valve Repair for Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation The Annals of Thoracic Surgery August 2023 Carlos Diaz-Castrillion 2 Volume-Failure to Rescue Relationship in Acute Type A Aortic Dissections: An Analysis of The (..)

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

APRIL 3, 2025

We evaluated trends in stroke and death among Medicare beneficiaries with AF between 2013 and 2019.METHODS:Medicare Age- and sex-adjusted mortality at 30 days, 1 year, and 3 years was calculated in each incident cohort.RESULTS:The mean number of Medicare beneficiaries with incident AF per year was 572 630 from 2013 to 2019 (30.44

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Medicare Atrial Fibrillation Stroke Strokes 40

Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The aim of this study is to examine the risks of adverse outcomes following CA in older people with AF.Methods:Using 2014-2019 Medicare claims, we conducted a propensity score analysis of patients treated with CA within 6 months of new AF diagnosis to patients treated with only antiarrhythmic therapy in the 6-month period.

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Atrial Fibrillation Medicare Ablation Outcomes 40

DAIC

JANUARY 27, 2025

13, 2025 Medtronic recentlyannounced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is opening a national coverage analysis (NCA) on renal denervation, a process that will allow the agency to review and develop a national Medicare coverage policy for renal denervation procedures for patients with hypertension. TCT 2024 4 WHO.

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