Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

AUGUST 14, 2024

Luke's Regional Medical Center has the lowest readmission rate for heart failure patients, CMS found. Boise, Idaho-based St.

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DAIC

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have granted the company’s Paradise Ultrasound Renal Denervation system a Transitional Pass-through (TPT) payment. tim.hodson Fri, 11/08/2024 - 09:57 Nov. 1, 2024 — Recor Medical, Inc. and its parent company, Otsuka Medical Devices Co. recently announced U.S.

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American College of Cardiology

JULY 10, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS). Of note, the PFS conversion factor has been updated from $33.2875 to $32.3562, a 2.80% cut.

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American College of Cardiology

APRIL 12, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule, proposing a 2.6% increase in operating payment rates for applicable hospitals. This represents a 3% projected increase in the hospital market basket update with a projected 0.4%

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Discover the hospitals with the highest and lowest hospital return days for heart attack patients, according to CMS data collected from July 2019 to June 2022.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Discover the top 10 hospitals with the highest excess readmission rates for heart failure patients, according to CMS' hospital readmissions reduction program

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Two Michigan hospitals had the highest excess readmission ratios for heart attack patients in the U.S. between July 1, 2019, and June 30, 2022, according to CMS data released July 31.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 13, 2025

"CMS proposes Medicare and Medicaid coverage for implantable pulmonary artery pressure sensors to manage heart failure. Final decision to be published on Jan.

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American College of Cardiology

AUGUST 7, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the Fiscal Year (FY) 2025 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) Final Rule on Aug. increase in operating payment rates for general acute care hospitals, representing a 3.4% increase in the hospital market basket with a 0.5% 1, including a 2.9%

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 31, 2024

"CMS has proposed coverage of implantable pulmonary artery pressure sensors for heart failure management. Learn about the criteria and public comment period."

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

"Learn about the national coverage analysis by CMS for transcatheter edge-to-edge repair for tricuspid valve regurgitation, including public comment and expecte

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The CDC and CMS added four NYC Health + Hospitals' facilities to the Million Hearts Hypertension Control Champion list in 2024, which recognizes hospitals who have achieved blood pressure control for at least 80% of adult hypertension patients.

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DAIC

MARCH 27, 2025

This launch coincides with the receipt of pass-through status by the CMS, effectiveApril 1, securing a drug-specific Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) billing code and coverage for traditional Medicare beneficiaries.

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American College of Cardiology

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) summarized a recent billing edit change in the 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule, which fixes an issue that previously prevented hospitals from reporting costs for cardiac computed tomography (CT) as cardiology services.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

AUGUST 20, 2024

Becker's has compiled a list of the hospitals with the highest and lowest payments for heart failure cases, as based on CMS's payment provider database.

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American College of Cardiology

JULY 18, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgical Center (ASC) Payment System rule on July 10. CMS proposes a 2.6% increase to OPPS payment rates that reflects a market basket update of 3.0%

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Memorial Hospital at Gulfport (Miss.) reported the highest Medicare payment of $38,459 for heart attack care between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data published Oct.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Of the 70 Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals in the U.S. who reported prescribing statin medication to patients at discharge, only nine did so for 100% of eligible patients in 2023, according to CMS data published Feb.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

MARCH 13, 2025

Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor had the lowest heart attack readmission ratio between July 1, 2020, and June 30, 2023, according to CMS data published Feb.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

JANUARY 21, 2025

hospitals meet the national average of mortality and payment rates used to calculate value of care for heart attack patients, according to CMS data published Oct. The majority of U.S. 30, 2024.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

General Hospital has the lowest 30-day readmission rate for heart failure in the country, according to CMS data. Lancaster (Pa.)

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American College of Cardiology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The ACC submitted formal comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Sept. 4, providing feedback and raising concerns on several issues of relevance to the cardiovascular community in the 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) proposed rule.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Some physicians may be overusing an invasive vascular procedure for patients with mild disease — making millions in the process, a ProPublica investigation into CMS data found.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the 2025 Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) final rule on Nov. The rule will implement a 2.9% increase to OPPS payment rates that reflects a market basket update of 3.4% reduced by a productivity adjustment of 0.5%.

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DAIC

JANUARY 23, 2024

In the hospital setting, CMS increased payment for the FFRCT service by ~7% for 2024. The new code can be used for hospital outpatient, physician offices, or imaging centers. Better reimbursement for hospitals leads to improved accessibility to this technology, which is a win for everyone involved, most notably patients.”

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DAIC

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The first patient in the randomized portion of the trial was enrolled by Bassem Chehab, MD, FACC , at the Ascension Via Christi Hospital. "I The first patient in the registry was enrolled at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan by Gillian Grafton, DO. I am thrilled to enroll the first patient in this important trial.

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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Cardiovascular medications frequently lead this category, often contributing to adverse clinical outcomes, including emergency department visits and hospitalizations. Common cardiovascular ADRs in geriatric patients include acute kidney injury, bleeding and orthostatic hypotension which can lead to hospitalization.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Despite notable limitations, CMS currently uses administrative claims to estimate complexity and determine provider payments. We projected the descriptions of CMS ICD-code-based risk factor categories into the embedding and used cosine similarity to identify whether notes provided additional information.

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DAIC

MARCH 7, 2024

Despite improvements with current medications and devices, heart failure remains at epidemic proportions and we now have an exciting opportunity for a therapy to improve important, objective outcomes, such as mortality and hospital re-admissions rates. The CardiAMP HF II trial is expected to similarly secure CMS reimbursement.

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DAIC

JUNE 4, 2024

Stroke recovery is a challenging process that extends for months after hospital discharge. I know the nurse explained my medications to me at the hospital. In the hospital, I could show I could give myself an injection so that I could take anticoagulants at home. This missing puzzle piece matters now more than ever.

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DAIC

JULY 25, 2024

“The CardiAMP cell therapy has the potential to be groundbreaking and life changing for patients with heart failure,” said Dr. Leslie Miller, MD , trial investigator at the CHF Heart Function Clinic at BayCare Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, Florida and a member of the CardiAMP Heart Failure II Study Executive Steering Committee. “As

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

DECEMBER 12, 2024

After CMS released its finalized 2025 physician fee schedule, which will reduce reimbursements by 2.83%, some cardiologists are raising concerns over what they call an unstable healthcare system, according to a Dec. 9 TCTMD report.

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Clinical information on a matched sub-population was linked from the EMR of a 7-hospital certified stroke health system. K-means clustering was performed on 1) the statewide dataset on post-discharge care utilization, and 2) the hospital dataset which further included clinical and acute care features. vs. 28.5%) (Fig.

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DAIC

MARCH 7, 2024

It reported the rate of CCTA exams by radiologists in hospital outpatient departments increased markedly from 2010 to 2019. Over that period, the rates of CCTA by radiologists in hospital outpatient departments increased by 355%, according to findings of Russell A. Rao, MD, FACR, from Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals.

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DAIC

MARCH 3, 2025

Dr. Mouaz Al-Mallah, MD, MSc, MASNC, Director of Cardiac PET at Houston Methodist Hospital, said, Flyrcado opens new frontiers for cardiac PET with a significantly longer half-life than existing PET MPI tracers, and we are proud to be one of the first to use it in our cardiac PET lab. National Center for Health Statistics.

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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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CardiacWire

JANUARY 17, 2024

Those investments often went to hospital systems and practices within key medical specialties like radiology and dermatology. Practices with Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) are becoming particularly attractive, as CMS added 23 ASC cardiac catheterization and PCI codes in just the last two years. in 2010 to $119.9B

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