Since the beginning of the year, eight facilities have met the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) minimum facility standards for performing carotid artery stenting for high risk patients.
The facilities are:
- Sky Ridge Medical Center in Lone Tree, Colorado (effective date: Jan. 4, 2016)
- McLaren Port Huron in Port Huron, Michigan (effective date: Jan. 4, 2016)
- DMC Huron Valley – Sinai Hospital in Commerce, Michigan (effective date: Jan. 4, 2016)
- Las Palmas Medical Center in El Paso, Texas (effective date: Jan. 7, 2016)
- Community Medical Center Barnabas Health in Toms River, New Jersey (effective date: Jan. 7, 2016)
- VHS Brownsville Hospital DBA Valley Baptist Medical Center – Brownsville in Brownsville, Texas (effective date: March 9, 2016)
- Manchester Memorial Hospital in Manchester, Connecticut (effective date: March 9, 2016)
- Grand Stand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (effective date: March 23, 2016)
In all, there are 1,358 facilities that have met CMS’s minimum facility standards since 2005.
Executive Editor
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.