DAIC

JUNE 4, 2024

In January 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began requiring health care organizations to screen for five social factors: Food insecurity Interpersonal safety Housing insecurity Transportation Utilities The purpose of these screenings is to encourage engagement of community-based organizations with resources to address SDOH.

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Strokes Stroke Innovation Research 115

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

1, 2020-Dec. Payer sources were identified as: self-pay, Medicaid, Medicare, and Private/HMO. Differences in compliance rates were 10% for Medicare, 13.5% The measure& Antihyperglycemic Medication with Proven Cardiovascular (CVD) Benefit at Discharge in Stroke Patients with DM(AMPB) has low compliance. Medicaid, and 15.3%

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Medicaid Strokes Stroke Medicare 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

We hypothesized that there would be no difference in the DIDO using an established systematic approach to transfers in our 14-hospital integrated healthcare system.Methods:All interhospital transfers for thrombectomy across our 14 PSCs were examined from 10/2020 - 4/2023. were female with a mean age of 69.7 (±16.2). mins, p = 0.7)

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Medicaid Medicare Strokes Stroke 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Data linkage might offer a solution.Methods:We probabilistically linked data from the Michigan’s Get With The Guidelines Stroke registry and Michigan Value Collaborative multipayer claims database from Medicare and Blue Cross Blue Shield beneficiaries discharged alive following acute stroke (ICD-10 I61-I63) between 2016-2020.

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Hospital Strokes Stroke Medicare 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Patients admitted to IRF or SNF after hospital discharge were confirmed using claims data.

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Nursing Inpatient Strokes Stroke 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Patients admitted to IRF or SNF after hospital discharge were confirmed using claims data. Home time was calculated over 90-days and 1-year following hospital discharge by subtracting the number of days spent in inpatient setting (i.e., IRF, SNF, and long-term care) from the number of days alive.

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Strokes Stroke Inpatient Outcomes 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

total 1-year home time of <30 days), was evaluated by precision (positive predictive value), recall (sensitivity), and F1 score.Results:Between 2016 and 2020, 75,478 statewide AIS admissions were captured, while 2,889 AIS admissions were analyzed for the matched hospital system subgroup. Cluster models with k = 2 centers (vs.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

With growing evidence supporting the role of percutaneous interventions for the treatment of significant TR, understanding these disparities is more crucial than ever.Methods:Data was extracted from the National Readmission 2016 - 2020 Database. and I07.1.

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Heart Failure Tricuspid Outcomes 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. Allegations claim that between 2013 to 2020 three decorated Baylor St. District Attorney’s office decided that this amounted to Medicare fraud.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Methods:We analyzed data on Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries aged ≥65 years hospitalized with AIS from April 1, 2020, to December 31, 2021. We used US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2020 Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) and compared demographic and clinical features by SVI tertiles (low 0-0.33, moderate 0.34-0.66,

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Medicare COVID-19 Hospital Strokes 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 the American Heart Association

MARCH 21, 2025

However, the association of socioeconomic vulnerability and outcomes after hospitalization is uncertain.Methods and ResultsAmerican Heart Association COVID19 Cardiovascular Disease Registry hospitalizations between March 1, 2020, and June 30, 2022, linked with Medicare feeforservice claims, were analyzed.

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COVID-19 Medicare Cardiogenic Shock Hospital 40

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Methods:Data were retrieved from a CMS Qualified Entity housing healthcare utilization data for ≥80% of the Texas state population (100% of Medicare Fee-for-Service). Analytical sample included all Medicare enrollees with a primary discharge diagnosis (AIS or ICH) from 2016 to 2020.

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Medicare Hemorrhage Inpatient Nursing 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We longitudinally followed the patients by linking the registry data to the Center for Medicare&Medicaid Service (CMS) claims data. We longitudinally followed the patients by linking the registry data to the Center for Medicare&Medicaid Service (CMS) claims data.

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Medicare CMS Medicaid Myocardial Infarction 40

Circulation: Heart Failure

JANUARY 26, 2024

Patients who underwent bariatric surgery were matched to controls in a 1:2 ratio (matched on exact age, sex, race, body mass index, HF encounter year, and HF hospitalization rate pre-surgery/matched period).

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Heart Failure Obesity Outcomes Medicare 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

We evaluated the influence of early (30-day) post-acute care (PAC) pathways on 1-year HT.Methods:We analyzed a cohort of Medicare AIS patients at a 7-hospital stroke certified health system (2016 to 2020). All claims within 1 year of hospitalization were collated and grouped into corresponding care pathways.

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Strokes Stroke Medicare CMS 40

Cardiomatics

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Cureus 2020, 12, 9349. [2] Bundle-Branch Block Morphology and Other Predictors of Outcome After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy in Medicare Patients. 2020, 22, 2349–2369. [8] Get in touch with our clinical team. Bibliography [1] Khan, M.A.; 2] McDonagh,T.A.; 2021, 42, 3599–3726. [3] 3] Liang, Y.; Heart Fail. 6] Howell, S.J.;

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Heart Failure Myocardial Infarction Medicare Defibrillator 52

Dr. Anish Koka

JULY 23, 2023

In 2020, the state medical board investigated Dr. Mustapha and referred him to the Michigan attorney general. Jeffery Dormu was a double board certified vascular surgeon who was paid $13 million dollars by Medicare alone between 2013 and 2017. The first complaint reported to the Maryland medical board was in October of 2020.

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Vascular Care Outpatient Peripheral Arterial Disease Stents 52

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

MARCH 5, 2024

In 2020, patients had higher odds of initiating LAAO use than in 2015 (0.52 Patient characteristics, measured 365 days before the first LAAO or OAC use date, were compared using logistic regression.RESULTS:There were 30 058 LAAO recipients (mean age, 77.74 years; female, 42.1%) and 792 600 OAC initiators (mean age, 78.48; female, 53.3%).

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Atrial Fibrillation Medicaid Cancer Medicare 40

Circulation

JANUARY 23, 2024

0.76]) compared with Medicare (HR, 0.85 [95% CI, 0.77–0.92]);Pinteractionsex×insurance The primary outcome was the use of optimal GDMT within 12 months of HFrEF diagnosis. The sex disparities in GDMT use after HFrEF diagnosis were most pronounced among patients with commercial insurance (females compared with males; HR, 0.66 [95% CI, 0.58–0.76])

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Heart Failure Medicare Circulation Outcomes 45

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

of all procedures were CAS but this proportion doubled over time such that in 2020, 29.6% to -4.8), while CAS use declined from 2006-2016 but increased significantly over 2016-2020 in both men (APC 16.5%, 95%CI 10.0 Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A49-A49, February 1, 2024. This age distribution was constant over time.

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

APRIL 20, 2023

Mark Erfe Outcomes of Sutureless/Rapid Deployment Valves Compared to Traditional Bioprosthetic Aortic Valves The Annals of Thoracic Surgery September 2020 J.

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Research Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Aortic valve Congenital 52

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Research

APRIL 20, 2023

June 2020 Arnar Geirsson 1 The Evolving Burden of Drug Use Associated Infective Endocarditis in the United States The Annals of Thoracic Surgery May 2020 Jaimin Trivedi 2 Is the Internal Mammary Artery Graft Beneficial in Emergent Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery?

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Research Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Aortic valve Congenital 52

Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

We examined the demographic and clinical correlates of EVT use in CVT and assessed its impact on patient outcomes utilizing a national database.MethodsWe identified CVT cases from 2015 to 2020 in the National Inpatient Sample, with EVT as the primary exposure. Individuals with Medicare (OR: 0.39, 95% CI: 0.26‐0.59, p<0.001).ConclusionWe

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Thrombosis Cancer Inpatient Hospital 40

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

This systematic review evaluates the safety, efficacy, and outcomes of OP IV diuresis in managing decompensated HF as a hospitalization alternative.MethodsFollowing PRISMA 2020 guidelines, this systematic review used MeSH terms in MEDLINE, SCOPUS, CINAHL Complete, and Cochrane Central. male, and 74.8% NYHA III-IV. respectively).

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Outpatient Heart Failure Medicare Inpatient 59