Economics

This channel highlights factors that impact hospital and healthcare economics and revenue. This includes news on healthcare policies, reimbursement, marketing, business plans, mergers and acquisitions, supply chain, salaries, staffing, and the implementation of a cost-effective environment for patients and providers.

Endologix, Inc. and TriVascular Technologies, Inc. Complete Merger

Endologix Treats 5,000 AAA Patients with Nellix® Endovascular Aneurysm Sealing System.

February 4, 2016

Medtronic acquires privately held company to expand renal care business

Medtronic acquired Bellco on Feb. 1 to expand its recently formed renal care solutions business. Terms of the deal were not announced.

February 2, 2016

Sales of MitraClip device increase in Q4

For the fourth quarter of 2015, Abbott’s worldwide medical device sales increased 0.7 percent on an operational basis, while its vascular products revenue decreased 0.5 percent.

February 1, 2016
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Move Your Mountain Sponsors a $1,000 #HeartStories Contest Promotion

Move Your Mountain will host an online Story Submission Contest for a chance to win a Grand Prize of $1,000.

January 29, 2016
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Hot Topics in Impella Reimbursement 2016: ICD-10 Coding Updates

Offered in cooperation with Abiomed

Are you maximizing your reimbursement based on your cardiovascular patient base? How have you been handling all of the new coding updates around ICD-10 since October 1st, along with the scrutiny around increased specificity with medical documentation?

January 28, 2016

St. Jude Medical’s revenue increases in 4Q, but cardiac rhythm management division lags

For the fourth quarter of 2015, St. Jude Medical’s revenue in its cardiac rhythm management division declined 10 percent on a constant-currency basis compared with the same time period in 2014. Meanwhile, revenue in its atrial fibrillation, cardiovascular and neuromodulation divisions increased 4 percent, 2 percent and 9 percent, respectively.

January 27, 2016
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Interactive Health to Team Up with the American Heart Association

Interactive Health, a national leader for its personalized wellness solutions, announced today it is supporting the American Heart Association on a shared mission of improving health and reducing heart disease risk and death.

January 27, 2016

Medtronic forms partnership with municipal government in China

Medtronic has announced a partnership with a Chinese municipal government to expand access to diabetes treatments.

January 21, 2016

Around the web

Eleven medical societies have signed on to a consensus statement aimed at standardizing imaging for suspected cardiovascular infections.

Kate Hanneman, MD, explains why many vendors and hospitals want to lower radiology's impact on the environment. "Taking steps to reduce the carbon footprint in healthcare isn’t just an opportunity," she said. "It’s also a responsibility."

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