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SCAI
SCAI and multiple medical societies submitted comments to the Department of Veterans Affairs July 22 surrounding the Veterans Health Administration's (VHA) Advanced Practice Registered Nurses Proposed Rule which, if finalized, would permit all VHA-employed APRNs to practice without the clinical supervision of physicians and without regard to state law.
The signatories strongly opposed the Proposed Rule and urge the VHA to consider policy alternatives that prioritize team-based care rather than independent nursing practice.
Read the full letter here
SCAI
The American Medical Association (AMA) has released a MACRA Readiness Checklist on what you need to do now to ease the transition for your practice and position you to earn financial rewards for the high-value care you provide. This checklist is the "starting point" for this complex and highly detailed law that will require everyone in your practice to assess the multiple options available and make plans to "hit the mark" on compliance.
Your first step should be to ensure that your Medicare "PECOS" profile is accurate with regard to specialty type and taxonomy information. Visit www.scai.org/ICDesignation for more information.
Need help? SCAI's Director of Reimbursement and Regulatory Affairs Dawn R. Gray can be reached at dgray@SCAI.org.
Medscape
Less than one-third of patients hospitalized with new-onset heart failure undergo noninvasive or invasive testing for coronary disease within 90 days, suggests an analysis based on claims data from more than 67,000 U.S. patients with commercial insurance or Medicare coverage.
Such tests for coronary disease, consisting of nuclear or echocardiographic stress testing or cardiac catheterization, were performed in 17.5 percent during the hospitalization and in 27.4 percent overall within 90 days.
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Healio
Patient care steered by coronary computerized tomography (CT) angiography plus CT-based fractional flow reserve was linked to equivalent clinical outcomes and quality of life but lower costs versus traditional care, according to one-year data from the PLATFORM study. Pamela S. Douglas, MD, from the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University School of Medicine, and colleagues analyzed data from the PLATFORM study of outpatients with symptoms of chest pain aged at least 18 years without known coronary artery disease (CAD) who displayed an intermediate penchant for obstructive CAD and were candidates for nonemergent cardiovascular testing to find suspected CAD.
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Cardiovascular Business
A surgeon's degree of specialization helped predict 30-day operative mortality in some common cardiology procedures, according to a retrospective analysis of Medicare data. The researchers calculated surgeon specialization by dividing the number of times the surgeon performed the specific procedure by his or her total number of operations for all procedures.
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MedPage Today
Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) guidance for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is even better for longer lesions, a meta-analysis suggested.
In general, IVUS-guided PCI was tied to a reduction in major adverse coronary events compared with a angiography-led strategy over a mean of 14 months, Anthony A. Bavry, MD, MPH, of Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida, and colleagues reported online in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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Now available with a nitinol wire, meeting preferences for a more durable wire and more tactile feel. Included is a stainless steel needle for single wall, micropuncture technique. Adding to SS and A-Kit options, Terumo now offers a full family of thin wall, introducer sheath kits for additional procedural preferences.
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All brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of Terumo. TIS-310-05242016
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Healio
Vasorum Ltd. announced that its vascular closure device has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in interventional cardiology and interventional radiology procedures. The device is indicated for arterial puncture closure in patients undergoing diagnostic or anticoagulated percutaneous interventional cardiology or radiology procedures, according to a press release issued by the company.
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Medscape
Being physically active during leisure time can help younger women achieve lower risk of incident coronary heart disease (CHD), according to a new study.
"Engaging in exercise is beneficial for lowering the risk of having a heart attack in young women. Exercise did not have to be strenuous to be beneficial; moderate-intensity physical activity, including brisk walking, was associated with lower risk of heart disease," Dr. Andrea K Chomistek (Indiana University Bloomington School of Public Health) told heartwire from Medscape by email.
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PrognoCIS Electronic Health Record (EHR) and services use the latest internet technologies to provide efficient practice management and medical billing, meeting the needs of Cardiologists around the country.
Learn why our members say we’re “More Than a Great EHR.”
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TCTMD
The medical community has focused on potential overuse of various tests and treatments in recent years, but it appears that ischemic CAD assessment and subsequent revascularization are being withheld from the majority of patients with new-onset heart failure, according to an analysis of insurance claims.
Only 17.5 percent of such patients underwent invasive or noninvasive screening for ischemic CAD during the index hospitalization, with the rate rising to just 27.4 percent within 90 days, lead author Darshan Doshi, MD, and colleagues report.
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Pulsara
Repeating the ECG after you've already received one from the medics wastes precious time and tissue. Rethinking that protocol could mean improved outcomes for your patients.
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HealthLeaders Media
First came Medicare's bundled payments program for joint replacements. Then came its oncology bundling model. Medicare has announced a program for cardiac-care bundled payments.
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| July 28- 29 |
Complex Interventional Cardiovascular Therapy (CICT) 2016 |
San Francisco, CA
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| Aug. 20-21 |
SCAI-NCDD China Fellows Course
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Shijiazhuang, CHINA
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| Aug. 25-28 |
ACC/SCAI Premier Interventional Cardiology Overview and Board Preparatory Course Gold Package
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Amelia Island, FL
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| Sept. 30-Oct. 1 |
3rd Annual Chicago CSI: Case Based Coronary and Structural Heart Intervention Update |
Chicago, IL
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| Oct. 1 |
TRIP-VASC |
Chicago, IL
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| Dec. 10-14 |
SCAI 2016 Fall Fellows Courses |
Las Vegas, NV
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| May 10-13, 2017 |
SCAI 2017 Scientific Sessions |
New Orleans, LA
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| Dec. 9-12, 2017 |
SCAI 2017 Fall Fellows Courses |
Las Vegas, NV
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