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Health Care Use and Expenditures Associated With Cardiac Rehabilitation Among Eligible Medicare Fee‐for‐Service Beneficiaries

Journal of the American Heart Association

Nearly 65% of beneficiaries had a percutaneous coronary intervention, 33.5% had a coronary artery bypass graft, and 16.8% and $1005 lower subsequent annual Medicare expenditures per beneficiary (95% CI, $1352 to $659). Participants attended 2 sessions of CR within 365 days of the event.

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Surgeon Preference Impacts Survival Outcomes Analyses for CABG Patients

DAIC

24, 2025 In-patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), a novel analysis evaluating surgeon preference for multi- versus single-arterial grafting may help explain the differing results between prior retrospective analyses and randomized controlled trials regarding long-term survival.

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Referral Networks, Racial Inequity, and Hospital Quality for Open Heart Surgery

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

BACKGROUND:Differences in the quality of hospitals where Black and White patients receive coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery have been documented.

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Assessment of Price Variation in Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery at US Hospitals

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundLittle is known about hospital pricing for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). times the Medicare rate ($57 240 and $75 047, respectively, versus $28 398). Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. Across 544 hospitals, median commercial and self‐pay rates were 2.01

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Surgeon Preference Factors into Survival Outcomes Analyses for Multi- and Single-Arterial Bypass Grafting

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

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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New Legislation Speeds Progress on Patient Access to New Technologies

Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Technology

Removing these barriers would allow surgeons, physicians, hospitals, health systems, and others to conduct longitudinal analyses and gain new insights into long-term outcomes for patients undergoing procedures such as coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)—the most common operation performed by cardiac surgeons.

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Hospital Variation in Skilled Nursing Facility Use After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundOver 20% of patients are discharged to a skilled nursing facility (SNF) after coronary artery bypass graft surgery, but little is known about specific drivers for postdischarge SNF use. A total of 17 328 (24.6%) were discharged to a SNF, ranging from 0% to 88% across 871 hospitals.