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This channel includes news on cardiovascular care delivery, including how patients are diagnosed and treated, cardiac care guidelines, policies or legislation impacting patient care, device recalls that may impact patient care, and cardiology practice management.

Key points to remember when performing cardiac ablations in ASCs
When CMS finalized coverage for cardiac ablations performed in ASCs, experts from HRS and ACC published recommendations for performing those procedures safely and effectively. One of the cardiologists behind that guidance shared some important takeaways with Cardiovascular Business.
Investor-bought PCPs carry on like nothing much has changed—with caveats
Private-equity acquisitions of primary-care provider practices neither alter hospitalization rates nor affect acute-care outcomes, according to new research out of Brown University.
How to—and how not to—consult with ‘Dr. ChatGPT’ and its peers
Do: Use large-language AI to help analyze your specific symptoms. Don’t: Ask a chatbot if you should go to the emergency room.
Post-pandemic allowances for telehealth claims have not triggered runaway healthcare spending
If Congress doesn’t act soon, CMS’s flexible funding of telemedicine visits—a temporary holdover from the COVID era—will dry up next year. A new study may help persuade fiscally cautious representatives not to let that happen.
AI course-of-care notes help doctors, pose little risk of harm to patients
Agentic large-language models can draft hospital discharge summaries that are safe, useful and demonstrably effective at helping to curb physician burnout, according to research conducted at Stanford University.

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New formula could mean diabetes and weight loss drugs such as semaglutide are only needed every 4 months

GLP-1 agonists are often taken as daily or weekly injections. A new delivery system could help make it so those same drugs are only required three times per year.

Cardiawave Valvosoft non-invasive ultrasound therapy

Cardiawave’s non-invasive ultrasound therapy impresses cardiologists early on—could it be an alternative to SAVR, TAVR?

While TAVR and SAVR are reliable treatments for calcific aortic stenosis, some patients are not considered for those procedures due to severe comorbidities or a limited life expectancy. This is where the investigational Valvosoft device from Cardiawave enters the equation.

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Hopkins lawyers seeking new trial in ‘Maya’ case

Claiming possible juror misconduct, attorneys for Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in Florida have filed a motion for retrial.

Healthcare hiring may save the US economy

If the country avoids slipping into an economic recession over the next few months or even years, it could have the healthcare job market to thank.

Lawyer calls $261M judgment against Johns Hopkins ‘patently excessive’

Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Fla., is crying foul over the damages a jury ordered it to pay Maya Kowalski and her family earlier this month.

Smartphone app helps TAVR patients avoid major complications

Hospital readmissions, ER visits and major complications were all less likely when TAVR patients used a smartphone app to assist with their recovery.

Prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) after TAVR

Cardiologists may want to rethink how they track prosthesis-patient mismatch after TAVR

Researchers evaluated two techniques for predicting PPM after TAVR, comparing them to how cardiologists typically check for PPM in day-to-day practice.

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Demand—and pay—keep growing for nurse practitioners, physician assistants

Advanced practice providers have enjoyed a raise in total cash compensation of 16% over the last five years. That’s a sharper upward pay trajectory than physicians or nurses have seen over that period.

Care Delivery

Key points to remember when performing cardiac ablations in ASCs

Investor-bought PCPs carry on like nothing much has changed—with caveats

How to—and how not to—consult with ‘Dr. ChatGPT’ and its peers

Post-pandemic allowances for telehealth claims have not triggered runaway healthcare spending

AI course-of-care notes help doctors, pose little risk of harm to patients