A study out of China found most patients biopsied for prostate lesions did not have clinically significant cancer, calling the clinical ranking systems into question.
Gregg Stone, MD, explains the details of the late-breaking RELIEVE-HF trial at ACC.24, where an inter-atrial shunt improved symptoms in HFrEF, but not in HFpEF patients.
Monica Lynch is suing MidState Medical Center in Connecticut Superior Court, claiming the fall resulted in a lack of stroke interventions and further injuries.
Healthcare systems set up at the ACC.24 career fair in hopes of filling positions, including a large and growing number of general cardiologist openings. Photo by Dave Fornell.
There is a rapidly growing shortage in general cardiologists and for positions in rural areas, numerous healthcare system recruiters set up at the ACC reported.
For the first time, the percentage of practice ownership by PE firms and other corporate entities (30%) surpassed hospitals or health systems' share (28%).
The case dates to March 2020, when the University of South Florida Foundation filed suit against the Marlborough, Massachusetts-based company, which later countersued.
CMS has issued a proposed rule that would result in a net increase of 2.6% to the Medicare inpatient prospective payment system rate for fiscal year 2025, a raise that hospital trade groups say doesn’t go far enough.