Revised CMS TAVR rules expected to widen access
Pediatric News ,
The new National Coverage Determination by Medicare for transcatheter aortic valve replacement should produce a bump in the…
How to Overcome Clinicians' Resistance to Nudges
Medical Health News,
Executive Summary Discussions about how behavioral economics can make the world a better place are often framed through the…
How to Overcome Clinicians’ Resistance to Nudges
Harvard Business Review ,
Executive Summary Discussions about how behavioral economics can make the world a better place are often framed through the…
ACC Comments on Draft TAVR NCD
Medical Health News,
In response to the draft national coverage determination (NCD) issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS…
Knowledge sharing, device improvements may shrink TAVR learning curve
Cardiovascular Business,
But when restricting the analysis to only the 28,227 TAVRs performed with the newest valve, the Sapien 3, Russo et al.
TAVR Outcomes, Hospital Volumes Critical to Understanding Quality
Medical Health News,
An accurate understanding of clinical outcomes and their relation to hospital volume is critical to ensure quality of TAVR…
Study: TAVR Success Tied to Experience With SAVR
Medical Health News,
Action Points A retrospective appraisal of CMS data from 519 centers (patients ages ≥65) showed that hospitals with higher…
Study: TAVR Success Tied to Experience With SAVR
MedPage Today,
Action Points A retrospective appraisal of CMS data from 519 centers (patients ages ≥65) showed that hospitals with higher…
Revisiting the Two-Surgeon Rule for TAVR
Medical Health News,
Satya Shreenivas More than 15 years after the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement, the need to have two cardiac…
Does Case Volume Promote Safety While Reducing Access? CMS and Physicians Wrestle With The Trade-Off
American Council on Science and Health,
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement, TAVR, is a far-less invasive means of replacing the heart valve connecting the heart…
CMS advisory panel divided on TAVR volume thresholds
Cardiovascular Business,
In an expert consensus document published by four cardiology societies, the authors argued for bolstering the procedural volume…
TAVR Operator and Hospital Requirements Outlined in 2018 AATS/ACC/SCAI/STS Expert Consensus
Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology,
July 26, 2018 — A new multi-societal expert consensus document has been released that summarizes the position of these…
Quality, not quantity, should guide Medicare coverage for heart valve disease treatment
The Hill,
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is reconsidering its nationwide policy on whether, and under what circumstances…
Updated TAVR Consensus Statement Keeps Volume Requirements but Shifts Focus to Quality
TCTMD,
The document provides a framework for centers to eventually be judged on quality alone, and not volume, one of the authors says.
Cardiology Groups Argue for Direct Measures of TAVR Quality
MedPage Today,
As Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) reconsiders its requirements for coverage of transcatheter aortic valve…