DAIC

JUNE 4, 2024

milla1cf Tue, 06/04/2024 - 20:54 June 4, 2024 — HeartFlow, a leader in cardiovascular healthcare technology, is pleased to announce a key Medicare policy development, which should allow for future expanded patient access to their Plaque Analysis product.

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DAIC

JANUARY 22, 2024

By not including a fix to the 3.37% cut to the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule in the most recent continuing resolution, practices around the country are left in a state of uncertainty for their own futures, as well as patient access to care,” said American College of Cardiology President B.

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HCPLive

JANUARY 17, 2025

Medicare has selected 15 additional drugs to negotiate prices directly with participating drug companies, including semaglutide (Ozempic).

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Heart BMJ

JANUARY 29, 2025

Methods Using the publicly accessible Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Medicare Part D database and the Open Payments Database, this study assessed associations between industry-sponsored meal payments to physician prescribers and total amounts of Medicare claims and spending for sacubitril/valsartan between 2015 and 2021.

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CardiacWire

JANUARY 3, 2025

Adding to a relentless trend of Medicare schemes, 16 cardiology practices agreed to pay more than $17.7M Medicare Part B reimburses providers for radiopharmaceuticals based on self-reported acquisition costs, leaving billing up to the honor system. In 13 states and D.C., The whistleblowers will make off with $2.7M healthcare system.

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CardiacWire

AUGUST 18, 2024

The White House finally unveiled its negotiated Medicare drug prices , bringing 38%-76% reductions to the first 10 drugs, while drawing mixed industry reactions. Medicare drug price negotiations are one of the highlighted results of 2022’s Inflation Reduction Act, allowing CMS to negotiate drug prices for the very first time.

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HCPLive

MARCH 18, 2025

Medicare physician payment cuts. A newly passed bill permits 2.8%

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Med Page Today

MAY 4, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- TTHealthWatch is a weekly podcast from Texas Tech. In it, Elizabeth Tracey, director of electronic media for Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, and Rick Lange, MD, president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.

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CardiacWire

MARCH 24, 2024

Less than two weeks after Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy gained expanded FDA approval for cardiovascular event risk reduction, CMS issued a new Medicare Part D guidance that allows coverage of obesity drugs for senior patients with “an additional medically accepted indication”… like cardiovascular disease.

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HCPLive

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Analysis shows that biosimilar uptake was up to 2-fold greater in Medicare Advantage coverage than traditional Medicare.

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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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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

JANUARY 26, 2024

However, the complexities of state-regulated insurance, Medicare insulin caps, and insulin manufacturers’ patient assistance programs create a web of resources that is complicated to navigate. How to Get Insulin for Your Medicare Patients Medicare-lowered insulin costs are automatic and will be available at any in-network pharmacy.

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HCPLive

JULY 27, 2024

A new study found claims for services of opioid treatment programs rose among Medicare beneficiaries after Medicare started covering them.

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DAIC

OCTOBER 16, 2024

15, 2024 — The American Medical Association recently released a statement urging Congress to address Medicare reform during the lame duck session later this year. The House position is clear now that 233 members of the House – a solid, bipartisan majority – are urging the Speaker to tackle Medicare reform during the lame duck.

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Med Page Today

JANUARY 14, 2025

(MedPage Today) -- The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will review a potential national Medicare coverage policy for renal denervation for patients with hypertension, Medtronic announced. The FDA said Philips is recalling the monitoring.

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CardiacWire

MARCH 21, 2025

About 75% to 80% of eligible ATTR-CM patients are covered by Medicare, so doctors may be incentivized to prescribe more expensive Part B medicines.

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Med Page Today

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

(MedPage Today) -- A new diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease or related dementia was more common after falls than after other traumatic injuries, an analysis of Medicare claims data showed. The study assessed nearly 2.5 million older adults who had.

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Science Daily - Heart Disease

AUGUST 26, 2024

million Medicare beneficiaries are most likely to become eligible for semaglutide. If Medicare Part D narrowly defines cardiovascular disease, majority of patients would remain ineligible while new federal spending could still exceed $10 billion. A new study estimates that 3.6

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 6, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- WASHINGTON -- Heart transplant patient Eddie Garcia was "feeling like a million bucks" one day in the summer of 2021. He had just gotten back from a 3-mile walk, something he couldn't do prior to his transplant in 2020 -.

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Becker's Hospital Review - Cardiology

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

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. Memorial Hospital at Gulfport (Miss.)

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American College of Cardiology

JULY 31, 2024

Work, practice, expense and liability relative value units are updated annually through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rulemaking.

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American College of Cardiology

JULY 16, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the proposed 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) on July 10, addressing Medicare payment and quality provisions for physicians in the coming year. Under the proposal, physicians will see a decrease to the conversion factor of 2.80% on Jan.

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DAIC

OCTOBER 15, 2024

15, 2024 – Elucid has announced that four of the seven Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) will extend coverage for AI-enabled quantitative coronary plaque analysis, including its FDA-cleared PlaqueIQ image analysis software, beginning Nov. tim.hodson Tue, 10/15/2024 - 12:12 Oct.

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DAIC

OCTOBER 16, 2024

15 , 2024 — Four of the seven Medicare Administrative Contractors (MACs) have released final local coverage determinations (LCD) for AI-Coronary Plaque Analysis (AI-CPA). tim.hodson Wed, 10/16/2024 - 12:36 Oct. The four contractors for the U.S.

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Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Congenital

JANUARY 25, 2025

Hunter Mehaffey, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon from West Virginia University, will examine results comparing two treatment options Transcatheter vs. Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement in Medicare Beneficiaries with Aortic Stenosis and Significant Coronary Disease.

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CardiacWire

JULY 13, 2024

However, a Medicare fraud settlement featuring some of Houston’s most prominent institutions and cardiac surgeons reveals the pitfalls of this incentive structure. District Attorney’s office decided that this amounted to Medicare fraud. Allegations claim that between 2013 to 2020 three decorated Baylor St.

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Med Page Today

DECEMBER 14, 2023

(MedPage Today) -- Potential unintended consequences of Medicare's drug-price negotiation program were examined during a panel discussion hosted by The Hill and sponsored by the Alliance for Aging Research, an industry-funded nonprofit. Wednesday.

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American College of Cardiology

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Work, practice, expense and liability relative value units (RVUs) are updated annually through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) rulemaking.

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Med Page Today

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Medicare records showed that within. (MedPage Today) -- More vigilance may be needed regarding the amount of benzodiazepines being dispensed to older stroke survivors, though prescription patterns at the national level have improved in recent years.

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American College of Cardiology

MARCH 21, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has increased the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) conversion factor by 1.68% – from $32.74 for services rendered Jan. 1 through March 8 to $33.07 for services rendered March 9 through Dec.

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American College of Cardiology

MARCH 11, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced on March 9 a new opportunity to request advanced Medicare payments for clinicians impacted by the cyberattack and resulting claims disruptions with Change Healthcare.

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Journal of the American Heart Association

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

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. Compared with nonparticipants, participants had 47.6 fewer subsequent annual inpatient hospitalizations per 1000 beneficiaries (95% CI, 58.8

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American College of Cardiology

AUGUST 15, 2024

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Aug. 15 announced the results of price negotiations for the first 10 drugs selected for the Medicare Drug Negotiation Program, made possible by the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes

MARCH 28, 2025

BACKGROUND:Although Medicare Advantage (MA) plans provide coverage to >50% of Medicare beneficiaries, it is unclear whether MA claims can be used similarly to Medicare Fee-For-Service (FFS) claims for clinical outcomes assessment. Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print.

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Medical Xpress - Cardiology

JULY 25, 2024

Despite thrombectomy's high success rate in saving the lives of stroke patients, Medicare is paying lower rates over time for the procedure, according to research presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 21st Annual Meeting.

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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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American College of Cardiology

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Medicare payment cut imposed by the 2025 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule and institute a 2% inflationary update, providing financial relief to physician practices across the country and preserving access to vital health care services. Legislation introduced in Congress on Jan. 31 would revert the 2.8%

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