Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Broward Health raised $9 million at an annual fundraising event, the majority of which will go to enhancing the system’s cardiovascular service line. It is the most money raised in the event’s 12-year history, according to an…
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Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health has partnered with East Tennessee State University, also in Johnson City, to enhance the medical training of students in the school’s cardiology program. Fellows in ETSU’s cardiology program will now learn and practice within the…
Researchers from Philadelphia-based University of Pennsylvania’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics recently found that coronary artery bypass grafts are the most lucrative cardiology procedures for hospitals nationwide. The surgeries, which aim to improve blood flow to the heart, were…
Cardiologists in Indiana earn the highest annual and hourly mean wage before and after adjusting for the state’s cost of living index, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The national annual mean wage for…
CMS has proposed Medicare and Medicaid coverage for transcatheter tricuspid transcatheter edge-to-edge repair procedures for the treatment of symptomatic tricuspid regurgitation. The procedures would be subject to CMS’ Coverage with Evidence Development guidelines, meaning coverage would be considered only in…
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Los Angeles-based Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai is going all in on artificial intelligence to improve heart care, patient experience and provider wellbeing. Here are just five ways the facility is harnessing AI to get results: 1. In outpatient care,…
There is something special going on inside NYU Langone’s thoracic surgery service line. Not only does the thoracic surgery team perform more surgeries than the national average, it reports no 30- and 90-day mortalities. The team also sends patients home…
Naples (Fla.) Comprehensive Health will name the catheterization labs and boardroom of the future RM Schulze Family Heart and Stroke Critical Care Center after a recent $10 million gift from Jay and Patty Baker. The new center, on which the…
As of May 2024, the mean annual wage for cardiologists in the U.S. was $432,490, according to data published April 2 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Cardiologists in West Virginia earned the lowest mean annual wage of $276,750 while…
A team at New Hyde Park, N.Y.-based Northwell Health’s Cohen Children’s Medical Center performed its first pediatric heart transplant March 28. It was also the first pediatric heart transplant to be performed on Long Island, according to an April 1…