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.
CardiacWire
APRIL 9, 2025
Casting doubt on value based cardiac care, a JAMA study found that outpatient cardiology practices enrolled in an accountable care organization (ACO) through the Medicare Shared Savings Program (MSSP) dont offer better care than non-ACO practices. No changes in CVD drug prescriptions, LDL profiles, or smoking cessation.
DAIC
JANUARY 30, 2025
By integrating a real-time frailty risk score into the electronic medical record (EMR), presenting stroke severity and other variables, we can proactively identify who will benefit from immediate surgery and who may need pre-habilitating before surgery to achieve better outcomes.
DAIC
JANUARY 24, 2025
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. the data and outcomes from the STS Database specialty registries provide true national benchmarks for clinical outcomes of cardiothoracic surgery.
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.
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality & Outcomes
MARCH 28, 2025
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, Ahead of Print. 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
APRIL 7, 2025
BACKGROUND:Despite reported racial disparities between Black and White adults in short-term outcomes after abdominal aortic aneurysmal intervention, there is a paucity of literature aimed at understanding long-term disparities. The cumulative incidence of the primary outcome was 72.9% (95% CI, 71.8%73.9%)
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