As ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) become increasingly attractive as a high quality, lower cost site of care for appropriate patients, cardiovascular procedures may be the next wave of higher acuity ...

Apr. 4—Mosaic Life Care is one of the only hospitals in Missouri to earn the American College of Cardiology accreditation for a minimally invasive cardiovascular procedure. The transcatheter aortic ...

Cardiovascular procedures are increasingly moving from hospitals to outpatient settings, and are being performed in ambulatory surgery centers. That change can save the patient, provider and payer ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has provided a major reimbursement update for cardiac ablation ...

Testing by Rutgers Health and other institutions is reshaping how – and how gently – doctors repair failing valves ...

Everywhere scientists look for microplastics, they've found them -- food, water, air, and some parts of the human body. But examinations of our innermost organs that aren't directly exposed to the ...

Extending Medicare reimbursement for cardiac catheter ablation to settings outside the hospital is expected to boost ...

Dignity Health Mercy Medical Center in Redding is celebrating 500th heart procedure milestone with Stanford Health ...

ASCs are primarily developing cardiovascular programs using two models: (i) a co-management model and (ii) a “hybrid model.” For the co-management model, the ASC contracts with a cardiovascular ...

However, over the last 12 years, the migration of procedures to the outpatient setting has steadily grown and in the last few years, the growth has been exponential. During a September podcast hosted ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - Merit Health Wesley hospital has recently launched a cardiovascular procedure that gives patients an alternative to the lifelong use of blood thinners. Merit Health ...

Modern heart surgery is miraculous. To think a failing aortic valve can be replaced via catheter without even cutting open the chest is to appreciate one of the wonders of 21st-century medicine. But ...