Effective July 1, 2017 for Medicare heart attack patients, the the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will ...
Cardiovascular Surgery
This channel includes news and new technology innovations for cardiac surgery. This includes coronary artery bypass grafts (CABG) and surgical valve replacements.
December 29, 2016 — The American College of Cardiology (ACC), along with several partnering organizations, recently ...
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December 29, 2016 — The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized new Medicare alternative payment models ...
December 8, 2016 — St. Jude Medical Inc. announced results of the MOMENTUM 3 U.S. IDE Clinical Study during a late ...
David Kandzari, M.D., director of interventional cardiology and chief scientific officer, Piedmont Heart Institute ...
November 3, 2016 — Coronary artery bypass (CABG) surgery is the standard treatment for revascularization in patients ...
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October 31, 2016 — A major international study has found that drug-eluting stents, a less-invasive alternative to bypass ...
October 28, 2016 — For the first time, fetal medicine experts have performed prenatal heart surgery to remove a life ...
October 26, 2016 — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) provided an update and additional information regarding ...
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(Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series on the proposed Medicare five-year demonstration for a ...
October 14, 2016 — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is warning healthcare providers and patients ...
October 13, 2016 — SentreHeart Inc. announced this week it has treated the first patients using the Eclipse Surgical ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed its rules concerning custom medical devices Oct. 12, adding new ...
October 5, 2016 — Medtronic said two previously communicated global voluntary recalls related to the HeartWare ...
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(Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part series on the proposed Medicare five-year demonstration for ...