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. 7, 2023.

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DAIC

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) are health care facilities that provide same-day surgical care, including diagnostic and preventive procedures, outside a hospital setting for planned procedures on low-risk, stable patients. This registry suite is meeting an unmet need.

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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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Cardiovascular Diabetology

JULY 7, 2024

The costs were direct total health care expenditures (out-of-pocket payments and payments by private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and other sources) from various sources (office-based visits, hospital outpatient, emergency room, inpatient hospital, pharmacy, home health care, and other medical expenditures).

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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The number of cardiac procedures being performed in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) has grown significantly over the last decade, and third-party payer reimbursement, led by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, have resulted in continued trends of minimally invasive cardiac procedures on stable patients increasingly being performed outside (..)

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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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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The Office of the Inspector General recently reported that 13% of Medicare beneficiaries were denied access by some Medicare Advantage Organizations to medically necessary care, including admission to inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF).

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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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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Background:Since 2016, hospitals have been able to document International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) codes for National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). As of 2023, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services uses NIHSS as a risk adjustment variable. of hospitals.

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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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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Target: Type 2 DiabetesSM(TT2DM) is an American Heart Association® (AHA) initiative focused on providing evidence-based guideline (EBG) resources to mitigate risk in hospitalized stroke patients with DM. Participating Get With The Guidelines® (GWTG)-Stroke hospitals track EBG data to improve outcomes. Medicaid, and 15.3%

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Introduction:Patients who present to a PSC with a large vessel occlusion are often transferred to hospitals with thrombectomy capability. Inequities in rates of hospital transfer amongst patients across various gender, racial background, and socioeconomic status are well established. or Medicaid (10.8 mins, p = 0.7)

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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. Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATMP15-ATMP15, February 1, 2024. Introduction:One-fifth of the US population reside in rural areas (RAs).

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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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GEMMS

APRIL 8, 2024

Established by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) , the MIPS Program is pivotal in determining Medicare payment adjustments for healthcare practices. What is MIPS?

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2021

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. For more, visit acc.org.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

BackgroundLittle is known about hospital pricing for coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG). Across 544 hospitals, median commercial and self‐pay rates were 2.01 times the Medicare rate ($57 240 and $75 047, respectively, versus $28 398). Within hospitals, the 90th percentile insurer‐negotiated price was 1.83

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Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

The aim of this study is to understand the social determinants of health within our public safety net hospital. Methods:All patients entered into the GWTG-Stroke registry for NYC Health+Hospitals/Kings County between 3/1/2022 and 3/31/2024. 4.42, p<0.02). 3.06, p<0.04). 3.06, p<0.04). 3.82, p<0.01).

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DAIC

MARCH 13, 2024

CMS has reviewed the CardiAMP Heart Failure II Trial and approved the investigational product, related and routine items and services for purposes of Medicare coverage. Getty Images milla1cf Wed, 03/13/2024 - 16:49 March 13, 2024 — BioCardia, Inc. , Getty Images milla1cf Wed, 03/13/2024 - 16:49 March 13, 2024 — BioCardia, Inc. ,

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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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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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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. Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology, Volume 3, Issue S2 , November 1, 2023.

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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. vs. 13.2%, respectively).

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The population served by our hospital is notable for a large socioeconomic range of patients. Patient characteristics and demographics were mined from the Get With The Guidelines™-Stroke database from NYC Health+Hospitals/Kings County. p < 0.0001), and those with Medicare/Medicaid have a decrease in time of 1291.83min (1652.1-931.5,

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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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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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Stroke: Vascular and Interventional Neurology

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A backward stepwise regression model (at p<0.05) was used to explore patient demographics, hospital characteristics, and comorbidities significantly associated with EVT use. We examined the association between EVT use and in‐hospital mortality using survey weighted unadjusted and adjusted logistic regression models.

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The Beat Blog

AUGUST 12, 2022

Elliott Fisher during a 2006 public meeting with the Medicare Payment Advisory Committee (MedPAC). Then, six years later in 2012, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) authorized the use of Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) to improve the safety and quality of care and reduce health care costs in Medicare.

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