Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Percentage change in stroke admission cost adjusted for healthcare inflation between 2013-14 to 2021-22 weighted for the number in each stroke DRG was included in the analysis.Results:Between 2013 and 2022, nationwide there were a total of 2,007,005 unique stroke-related inpatient hospital claims, resulting in Medicare payments totaling $21.07

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Medicare Inpatient Hospital Stroke 40

CardiacWire

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Out of SAFE-IVC’s roughly 270k Medicare beneficiaries, only 15% had their IVC filters retrieved within 1.2 Old age, comorbidities, and race decreased the likelihood of IVC retrieval, whereas placement at a large teaching hospital increased retrieval likelihood. years of insertion. That number barely rose to 16.8%

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Blood Clot Thrombosis Embolism Medicare 59

Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

fewer subsequent annual inpatient hospitalizations per 1000 beneficiaries (95% CI, 58.8 and $1005 lower subsequent annual Medicare expenditures per beneficiary (95% CI, $1352 to $659). A higher amount of participation was associated with a further reduction in hospitalizations and expenditures.

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Medicare Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Cardiac Rehabilitation Inpatient 45

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction:Stroke prevalence is highest in adults ages>65 years, the majority of whom are Medicare beneficiaries. Fee-for-Service (FFS) Medicare incentivizes utilization by paying for each service. Medicare Advantage (MA) uses capitated payments to reduce overutilization.

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Medicare Blood Pressure Stroke Strokes 40

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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Hospital CMS Medicaid Medicare 46

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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Hospital CMS Medicaid Medicare 46

JAMA Cardiology

MAY 28, 2024

This cohort study examines the incidence of dialysis and acute kidney injury among Medicare beneficiaries after hospitalization for heart failure.

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Heart Failure Hospital Medicare Outcomes 40

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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CMS Hospital Medicaid Medicare 46

Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Introduction:In recent years, Medicare Advantage (MA) enrollment in the US has increased dramatically relative to traditional Medicare (TM). Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page ATP80-ATP80, February 1, 2024.

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Medicare COVID-19 Inpatient Nursing 40

American College of Cardiology

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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Hospital CMS Medicaid Medicare 40

HeartRhythm

APRIL 30, 2024

As of 2019, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires that each hospital publish the standard prices of the procedures it offers in a document called a chargemaster. The stated purpose of this rule is to promote pricing transparency and help patients and health plans make informed healthcare decisions.

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Hospital Medicaid Ablation Medicare 40

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Our objective was to determine whether ICR is associated with a mortality and cardiovascular benefit compared with CR.Methods:Retrospective cohort study of Medicare Fee-For-Service beneficiaries in a 100% sample, claims data set. In the matched sample, including 26 659 total patients (median, 2.4-year

Cardiac Rehabilitation 40

Cardiac Rehabilitation Medicare Outcomes Hospital 40

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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Outpatient Hospital Reimbursement Medicaid 105

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. The approval of TPT offers incremental reimbursement payments for outpatient procedures performed with ultrasound renal denervation for Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries.

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CMS Ultrasound Blood Pressure Reimbursement 40

American College of Cardiology

APRIL 17, 2025

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the fiscal year (FY) 2026 Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) proposed rule on April 11, proposing a net increase of 2.4% for inpatient hospital payments.

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CMS Medicaid Inpatient Medicare 43

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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Hospital Medicare Stroke Strokes 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

Simultaneously, the US healthcare system has undergone a period of rapid consolidation with large hospital systems purchasing smaller hospitals and physician practices, an evolution termed vertical integration (VI). hospitals on average, while hospitals received stroke transfers from 2.1

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Hospital Stroke Strokes Medicare 40

Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

DECEMBER 28, 2023

We examined patient, hospital, and geographic characteristics associated with the intensity of vascular care received the year before amputation. 0.98];P=0.019), and those who received care at a safety-net hospital (odds ratio, 0.87 [95% CI, 0.78–0.97];P=0.012) 0.85];P<0.001).CONCLUSIONS:Patients 0.85];P<0.001).CONCLUSIONS:Patients

Vascular Care 61

Vascular Care Ischemia Medicare Hospital 61

Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

APRIL 30, 2024

"Discover the alarming findings of a recent study on Medicare reimbursements, revealing a 29% decrease for cardiology and even greater declines for cardiac

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Reimbursement Medicare 64

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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Coronary Artery Disease CMS Innovation Ischemia 52

The American Journal of Cardiology

JANUARY 4, 2025

Publication date: Available online 3 January 2025 Source: The American Journal of Cardiology Author(s): Cody W. Dorton, Kyle A. McCullough, Taylor Pickering, Jasjit K. Banwait, Sarah Hale, J. Michael DiMaio, Justin M.

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Medicare Hospital Aortic 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

of all non-surgical stroke discharges were from PCS rural/small-town community hospitals (15% of all US hospitals), illustrating that there is room to avoid more futile transfers. Using AI-SCCPs ensures that local hospital/emergency departments can provide timely, expert stroke care for patients and their families in situ.

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Hospital Stroke Strokes Medicare 40

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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CMS Medicaid Medicare Inpatient 46

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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Diabetes Cardiovascular Disease Drug Costs Medicaid 72

Journal of the American Heart Association

JANUARY 12, 2024

For AIS, we calculated (1) the proportion of White patients at the hospital, (2) the proportional difference in the proportion of White patients between hospital patients and the county, and (3) provider care segregation by the dissimilarity index for ET cases.

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Hospital Outcomes Inpatient Stroke 40

HeartRhythm

AUGUST 31, 2024

Conduction system pacing (CSP) has emerged as an alternative therapy to traditional right ventricular (RV) pacing. However, the majority of CSP studies reflect small cohorts or single-center experience.

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Medicare Heart Failure Hospital 40

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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Medicare Document Stroke Strokes 40

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 Strokes Innovation Research 115

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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CMS Medicaid Medicare Outpatient 40

DAIC

JANUARY 12, 2024

The ATTRibute-CM study demonstrated a significant treatment effect of acoramidis in the primary analysis that compared, in a hierarchical manner, all-cause mortality (ACM), cardiovascular-related hospitalization (CVH), N-terminal prohormone of brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), and 6-minute walk distance (6MWD). Medicare population.

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Cardiomyopathy Medicare Cancer Hospital 105

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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Reimbursement Medicaid Medicare Hospital 46

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 Stroke Strokes Medicare 40

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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CMS Heart Failure Medicaid Medicare 52

Journal of the American Heart Association

MARCH 26, 2025

Methods and ResultsIn this retrospective study using complete, deidentified inpatient Medicare data (20162019), we identified incident acute ischemic stroke admissions, demographics, and hospitallevel variables. Among 951 914 patients, rural hospitals demonstrated lower intensive care unit capacity (27.5%

Stroke 45

Stroke Strokes Medicare Certification 45

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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Cardiovascular Disease Coronary Artery Disease CMS Hospital 40

JAMA Cardiology

JANUARY 2, 2024

This cross-sectional study examines outcomes for patients hospitalized with heart failure to compare changes in the quality and outcomes of care according to hospital participation in the Medicare Bundled Payments for Care Improvement program.

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Heart Failure Outcomes Medicare Hospital 40

Stroke Journal

JANUARY 30, 2025

The study outcome was a new speech pathology (SLT), occupational therapy (OT), or physical therapy (PT) encounter during the first year after discharge.Results:57,647 total cases were identified with 30% Medicare FFS, 33% Truven (Commercial) Medicare Advantage plan (65 years and older), and 37% Truven commercial (less than 65 years old).

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Medicare Stroke Strokes Outpatient 40