The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced that two facilities have met its standards for performing carotid artery stenting for high-risk patients.
Effective April 12, the following two facilities met the standards: Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Miss., and South Georgia Medical Center in Valdosta, Ga.
Since March 30, 2005, CMS has approved 1,361 facilities to perform carotid artery stenting for high-risk patients.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.