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Orlando, Fla.—Cardiovascular Business News sat down with Patricia Dear, president of EduTrax, an online coding, compliance and billing resource for healthcare providers, to discuss Medicare’s recovery audit contractors (RACs), who make a percentage of overpayment monies they recover for the government. Dear was a speaker at the annual meeting of the Alliance for Cardiovascular Professionals (ACVP) in March.
Orlando, Fla.—A new analysis of the HORIZONS-AMI trial found no increased stent thrombosis with drug-eluting stents (DES) compared with bare-metal stents (BMS)—both shortly after PCI and at one year. It also found that adjunct pharmacologic therapy influenced the risk of stent thrombosis, according to research presented Sunday during the i2 Summit at the American College of Cardiology’s 58th annual scientific session.
Contrast-enhanced cardiovascular MRI prior to prophylactic implantation of a cardioverter defibrillator identifies patients with increased risk for ventricular arrhythmias, which could prevent adverse events and save money, according to a study presented at the recent meeting of the Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Orlando, Fla.
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ORLANDO, Fla.—In acute heart failure patients, the use of relaxin, a naturally occurring hormone, was found to improve the hospital course of patients, prevent heart failure from worsening during hospitalization and shortened hospital stay, according to research presented Sunday during a late-breaking clinical trials session at the American College of Cardiology (ACC) 58th Annual Scientific Session.
Two of the main advantages of coronary CT angiography (CCTA) compared with coronary MR angiography (MRA) are speed and higher spatial resolution. Those gaps are quickly closing, however, as researchers have ramped-up coronary MRA with dedicated 32-channel cardiac coils and parallel imaging, according to a study presented at the recent Society of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Orlando, Fla.
The role of MR perfusion imaging in clinical decision making is being refined, based on new techniques that allow measuring blood flow to the heart with better spatial resolution and without any ionizing radiation, according to a presentation at the 12th annual scientific sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) last week in Orlando, Fla.
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The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.