While the American College of Cardiology's annual meeting has historically had a more clinical focus, presentations at this year's conference in Atlanta will spend much more time looking at the business side of things. 

The news represents a meaningful policy shift for CMS. In the past, Medicare prescription drug plans have not covered medications designed to help patients lose weight.

Making the hypothetical adjustment of switching all idle systems to off overnight and on weekends would save one hospital about $38,000. 
 

Private payers eventually overturned more than half of denials, with the claims paid, but only after “multiple, costly rounds of provider appeals.” 

New research explored the potential savings of turning off angiography systems at night and on weekends.

Internal medicine physicians spend a lot of time working with heart failure patients. A new commentary in JACC: Heart Failure explored the potential impact of providing IM trainees with special training so that they can deliver additional value.

Round13 Capital and the investment arms of Samsung and Deloitte all pitched in, with the company using the money to double its workforce within the next two years.

Lee Cooper will take the reins at the private equity-backed practice on April 1 after previously spending nearly 30 years with GE.