Sat.Jul 13, 2024

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Baylor St. Luke’s Settles Concurrent Cardiac Surgery Case

CardiacWire

Cardiac surgeon compensation is generally a numbers game – the more procedures you do, the more you make. 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. Luke’s heart surgeons regularly operated in two to three rooms simultaneously, while “delegating key aspects of extremely complicated and risky heart sur

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Brendon Neuen, MBBS, PhD: Optimizing Cardiorenal Prognosis with GLP-1, SGLT2 Combination

HCPLive

Neuen explains the cardiovascular and kidney benefits of combining SGLT2 inhibitors and GLP-1 receptor agonists in diabetes and the future of combination therapy.

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Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis Linked to Increased Polyneuropathy Risk

HCPLive

These data highlight the association between risk of developing polyneuropathy and the presence of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.

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Late-Onset Psoriasis May Shorten Interval Between Psoriasis and PsA Diagnoses

HCPLive

Older age and a greater BMI are associated with having a shorter interval between psoriasis and PsA diagnoses, a study found.

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