Cardiology

Four hospitals and health systems have recently opened specialty heart clinics or announced plans to do so. 

A lawsuit out of Florida is challenging Anthem's decision not to cover an air ambulance trip, despite the patient's physician deeming it medically necessary.

A new $17 million, 14,400-square-foot heart rhythm center is coming to Baptist Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla. The new facility will be part of the medical center's freestanding heart hospital. 

Morristown, N.J.-based Atlantic Health System is launching a cardiovascular program at Morristown Medical Center to treat severely clogged coronary arteries and other serious heart conditions, according to an Oct. 7 news release obtained by Becker's.

The National Institutes of Health has awarded Chicago-based Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine $18.1 million to lead the largest-ever funded study on heart failure with preserved ejection fraction — a condition that affects 2.5 million people in the U.S.

By 2035, 45 percent of the U.S. population will have at least one form of cardiovascular disease (CVD), driving the projected total cost of care to more than $1 trillion, according to research cited by presenters during a featured session…

Hackensack (N.J.) University Medical Center in July became the first in the state to treat a heart attack patient with a new device that makes enlarged, weak hearts smaller. 

The heart transplant team at Dell Children's Medical Center and UT Health Austin in Texas has performed six heart transplants since the program launched in October 2020 — triple the amount it had originally projected, the Austin American Statesman reported…

Hazim Safi, MD, will serve as medical director of aortic surgery at HCA Houston Medical Center, part of HCA Houston Healthcare, the health system said Oct. 1. 

A story about a spike in the death rates for heart disease and diabetes in 2020 was Becker's most-read cardiology story in September.