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.

Coronavirus

Coronavirus worries force ESC to cancel upcoming conference

The European Society of Cardiology has canceled its annual Acute Cardiovascular Care conference slated for March 7-9 in Athens, Greece. Coronavirus was named as the reason for the change of plans.

March 4, 2020

House OKs bill banning flavored e-cigarette sales

The U.S. House of Representatives on Feb. 28 voted to pass the Reversing the Youth Tobacco Epidemic Act, which, if further approved by the Senate, would ban the manufacturing and sale of flavored e-cigarettes and tobacco in the country.

February 28, 2020
Senator Bernie Sanders criticized Amazon's planned $3.9B acquisition of One Medical

ACC president: Bernie Sanders’ MI records omit measures of LVEF

Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has refused to release further medical information about an MI he suffered last October, leaving much of the public with questions about his heart health.

February 25, 2020

Utah Supreme Court paves way for thousands to seek legal action against cardiologist

A Feb. 18 decision by the Utah Supreme Court means that more than 1,000 patients are free to pursue claims against Salt Lake City cardiologist Sherman Sorensen, who’s been accused of performing hundreds of unnecessary PFO and ASD closures.

February 20, 2020
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America’s most expensive CV drug needs a 93% price cut

A 92.6% reduction in the list price of tafamidis—an effective but ultimately unaffordable drug designed to treat transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy—would be required to make the medication accessible to the average heart patient, researchers reported in Circulation Feb. 12.

February 14, 2020

Tenet Healthcare agrees to pay $1.4M to settle unnecessary implantation allegations

Tenet Healthcare Corporation and its affiliated Palm Springs, Calif., hospital Desert Regional Medical Center (DRMC) have agreed to pay $1.41 million to the U.S. government to settle False Claims Act allegations that the organization knowingly charged Medicare for unnecessary procedures.

February 13, 2020

Cardiologist in legal trouble after failing to diagnose patient’s fatal kidney cancer

A New York appeals court revived a lawsuit Feb. 11 involving a cardiologist who was accused of failing to diagnose a patient’s fatal kidney cancer nearly a decade and a half ago.

February 12, 2020
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New CV digital health journal names founding editor-in-chief

The Heart Rhythm Society and Elsevier have partnered to launch the Cardiovascular Digital Health Journal, a peer-review, open-access publication that will debut in July.

February 7, 2020

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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